Do you have to accept a bequest in a will?

matt.d.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81971018#Comment_81971018

That's a really good point - just been watching a report on the reforms and it certainly is a change to the system that may have an impact

Yorkie1

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81971018#Comment_81971018

Is it possible that the existing tenancy isn't an AST, but is of some other type, which wouldn't be covered by the changes in the RRA? (I don't know, just wondering. For example, HA or almshouse-type accommodation?)

Ms_Chocaholic

Is she still alive? Anything could happen, she could blow it all on the 3.20 at Kempton Park or more feasibly could need care home fees which could swallow a whole lot of it up.

Keep_pedalling

Giving it away, even with a deed of variation is deliberate deprivation of assets, and those suggesting she hides the money should remember that the will becomes a public record once probate has been obtained.

Having said that I don’t think this story stacks up, I know of no social housing provider that does this and the £6000 limit is the level of savings which effects the ability to claim housing benefit, so is this really the issue if not could the OP enlighten us as to which charity this is please ?

user1977

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81971308#Comment_81971308

Assuming nothing much has changed since the OP six hours ago, yes…

lr1277

With the inherited money could your daughter buy an equally good property? Or an almost as good property?

Could she in fact buy the property from the charity?

mta999

As @Keep_pedalling says above - you cannot do a DOV or refuse a bequest to get out of this situation

If you really want to go down this road then the best way to proceed is to ask for the will to be changed so that she is left nothing.

Even that, strictly speaking, is deliberate deprivation of assets - although unlikely to be picked up on

HillStreetBlues

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81972183#Comment_81972183

It can't be deprivation of assets as you have to have the asset to deprive yourself of them. Having a will changed would mean never having the asset.

mta999

Disagree - telling someone to remove them from their will because otherwise they will lose benefits is definitely deprivation of assets

HillStreetBlues

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81972306#Comment_81972306

How can you deprive yourself of something you never had?