Re: couple want benefits after spending £100,000
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Originally Posted by garinda
Perhaps I'm being particularly dim here, but to me it is very clear cut.
For most means tested benefits the amount you're allowed to have in savings is up to£16,000.
If you have a windfall, from wherever, and don't inform the relevant bodies, who then adjust the amount of benefit claimed, then it is treated as fraud.
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Am sure the figure for savings is £12,000 anything above that is taken into account
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