ESA and PPI

Kathytim

Its hard to give thia description, so here goes. Before I met my husband back in 2006, he had taken a loan out. We married in 2010 I was the sole wage earner. Due to circumstances I ended up having to leave( I worked in McDS) Last year they put me on disablity ESA. I think my husband filled in some paper work back in 2014., that he had forgotten about. The short of it is my husband had a letter last week to say he was entitled a PPI payment of over £8000. As it is in my husbands name for something that happened before we met would this affect our ESA. We have proof of year for the loan and our marraige certificate. TY 

janer1967

Hi and welcome to the community, I am not too sure about the answer to your question but I would think if it is a joint claim for benefits then the money would be taken into account, but the effect this would have on your benefits Im not sure.

There will be other members who can advise you better , I just wanted to say Hi 

Chloe_Alumni

Welcome to the community @Kathytim! How are you getting on?