I'm the Appointee for my disabled brother who claimes PIP and ESA
My father passed away and left a house worth £100k and some cash totalling about 100k to my brother and I to be distributed equally
my brother lived with my dad and wants to keep on living in the house
can I give my brother 100% of the house and keep 100% of the cash or sell my half of the house to my brother without it being considered and intentional deprivation of capital? for ESA?
I'm afraid we can't offer any advice on what you might do with regard to the house and payments to your brother, it is outside of the remit of the forum.
If your brother's ESA is only Contribution Based then the house as an asset and any money will not affect his ESA(CB).
If he receives Income Related ESA in part or in whole then it will be affected by any money that he has.
If he is living in a house that he owns then it should be disregarded, however, I can't say for certain that this will still be the case although I am not expecting it to be an issue.
Try and get advice from a salaried Welfare Rights Worker.
Gordon
Nothing on this board constitutes legal advice - always consult a professional about specific problems
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