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Excecutive to my belated son

deedee59uk

Hello as I’m excecutive to my belated son , im getting a settlement on behave of his road traffic death
as I’m on pip and benefits will this count as personal accident compensation ? Will I lose my benefits?

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deedee59uk

EESA
disability premiums
council tax
housing benefit

Hannah_Alumni

Hello @deedee59uk

I'm so sorry for your loss. Can I ask, do you have support around you at the moment?

I do not know much about the benefits system when it comes to compensation, but I believe it may effect the capital limits like Woodbine mentioned.

I think it would be best to speak directly to the DWP.

calcotti

deedee59uk said:

EESA
disability premiums
council tax
housing benefit

I share woodbine's opinion that, because the compensation is for an injury not caused to you, the compensation will be yours (it’s effectively an inheritance).

If any of your ESA is contribution based that will continue. Everything else will stop if you have more than £16,000 of capital. Once capital drops below £16,000 you can claim but to help with rent you would have to claim Universal Credit.