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Housing Benefit
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Is there a savings related cap on it? Someone I know receives her old age pension, lives in a council flat and has her rent paid for her but has around £75,000 in savings. I would have thought that makes her ineligible.
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Mrs JtH (works for the DWP) has just told me that your acquaintance ought to be receiving *nothing* from the public purse. She also confirms that banks and DWP talk to one another and, in all likelihood you acquaintance will be asked to account for her neglecting to have been candid about the amount of her savings....
10:11 Mon 31st Aug 2020
This link says you don't get any HB with over £16k in savings. I bet she's not paying any Council Tax either.
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So did I Margie until I lived near a lady who knew this sort of thing. Thus was at least 15 years ago but she told me the DWP did not check up because they are not allowed to (Human Rights Act possibly). If they are suspicious, perhaps someone has reported them, then they can go to court and seek a warrant which allows them to do the appropriate checks. I believe we have at least one ABer who has or does work in Benefits who could verify this, or not.
Mrs JtH (works for the DWP) has just told me that your acquaintance ought to be receiving *nothing* from the public purse.
She also confirms that banks and DWP talk to one another and, in all likelihood you acquaintance will be asked to account for her neglecting to have been candid about the amount of her savings....
She also confirms that banks and DWP talk to one another and, in all likelihood you acquaintance will be asked to account for her neglecting to have been candid about the amount of her savings....
Thanks JtH. She has been on benefits for years - since long before retirement age - and acquired her 'wealth' a couple of years ago when her mother died and she received her share from the sale of the house. I'm wondering now if she's given the money to someone else to look after for her - but it must have gone through her bank account initially so would be traceable. All very odd.