Post by terminator on Jun 24, 2022 10:12:41 GMT
I recently bought my flat off the council after my mother died in Jan 2019. All was going well between me and my brother until it came to the will, he put a couple of thousand pounds that my mother kept at home plus her state pension from the post office after notifying the DWP of her death, a total of around £2700 into his bank account. He changed the locks on the doors within a month of her death as my daughter went down to get something to do with her estate as she was dealing with it for me.
I haven't spoken to my brother since July 2019 and I don't want too. He had to admit to putting money that she had at home plus her pension she got from the DWP into his account after I got a solicitor.
The home had to be sold because I wanted to buy my flat and the DWP would stop my ESA, which they did as soon as the sale went through and the money was in my account as I notified them the day after it went in.
As far as I'm aware he used his portion plus a loan to buy a place. He was hoping I wouldn't find out where he moved too but I did when he wanted to alter his gmail account password it notified me of this and his address. I still don't want anything to do with him as overall I'm about £7500 out of pocket with the solicitors fees and that's minus the fees for selling my mothers bungalow.
I've still got over £16,000 in my account so cannot get the ESA restored but the way things are it will be about 14 months before I can ask for it to be restored even if they put it on as UC and this will see me lose about £1200 per year on it being a UC rather than the old style payment.
I haven't spoken to my brother since July 2019 and I don't want too. He had to admit to putting money that she had at home plus her pension she got from the DWP into his account after I got a solicitor.
The home had to be sold because I wanted to buy my flat and the DWP would stop my ESA, which they did as soon as the sale went through and the money was in my account as I notified them the day after it went in.
As far as I'm aware he used his portion plus a loan to buy a place. He was hoping I wouldn't find out where he moved too but I did when he wanted to alter his gmail account password it notified me of this and his address. I still don't want anything to do with him as overall I'm about £7500 out of pocket with the solicitors fees and that's minus the fees for selling my mothers bungalow.
I've still got over £16,000 in my account so cannot get the ESA restored but the way things are it will be about 14 months before I can ask for it to be restored even if they put it on as UC and this will see me lose about £1200 per year on it being a UC rather than the old style payment.
