gifts of money

Aella

I'm on UC and have about £1K in my bank account, no other savings or capital. At easter several friends sent me gifts of money via paypal, and recently they sent a few more payments as gifts as they know I'm hard up and have expenses, covering which would deplete my meagre £1K. Over the past few months the gifts have totalled about £600, and were all immediately spent on things I needed, from toiletries to medical supplies. On every paypal payment they very clearly wrote in the message box that it was a gift from a friend to help with my personal expenses and cover medical supply costs.

Is this OK? If they check my paypal account will I get in trouble?

kreacher

you are allowed up to 6k in savings, i believe

Nikk

As Kreacher has said you are allowed up to 6K in savings. You won't get into any trouble, for that amount.

Aella

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1029663#Comment_1029663

I know that, but are regular monetary gifts from friends OK?