What do we loose

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Hi everyone, my husband and I are currently on benefits he receives ESA in the support group with the disability premium. he gats PIP at the high rate for care. I receive PIP at the low rate for care and Carers allowance for my husband. My mother has passed away and left me Ј60,000, can anyone tell me which benefits will be affected.
Many thanks for any help.

Best answers:

• sorry for your loss.
  Anything income related such as help with council tax, rent.
  Is the ESA your husband gets income or contribution based? If income related that will go.
  Pip stays as you can work and get that.
  Not sure about carers sorry.
  Yours
  Calley
• carers not a problem either (providing you earn less than Ј102 a week)
• Hope the benefit reforms stop people claiming when they have thousands in the bank
• And, of course - if a properly written will had been done, setting up a trust - the money could have been actually beneficial.
  A large bequest to people on means tested benefits can end up as being unable to spend the money in any way other than as if you were still on benefits, with very little discretionary spending that does not risk at the end of the term being held to still have some of the money, and reducing or eliminating benefit entitlement.
  In addition to having to re-claim any means-tested benefits such as ESA.
  It is impossible to tell what is 'safe' to spend on - one decisionmaker may consider a family holiday to florida reasonable, another Tesco Finest unreasonable.