Evidence of How you've Soent The Benefit money Owed To Claiment

AutumnLeaves1
AutumnLeaves1 Community Member Posts: 1 Listener
in Universal Credit (UC)

Are receipts to be kept when Spending thr back pay. Is safe to withdraw cash from the back-pay from benefit thar has been back-payed as a lumpsum and if you have not kept thr receipts. In other words, does she/everyone have to keep evudence ofnmoney they have withdrawn and spent it on when it is comming out of the lump sum if payed back PIP and ir UC thar was owed to thenoerson claiming it?

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  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 681 Empowering

    i rarely keep receipts

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Community Member Posts: 9,131 Championing

    Benefits backpay is disregarded from counting as capital for 12 months. After 12 months, you won't be asked how it was spent.

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,463 Championing

    Not sure I completely with this. Although backpay is disregarded for 12 months, if it's mysteriously disappeared by the end of the 12 months, I think they could still ask for proof of where it's gone. For example, if you draw £5000 out of the bank, they could want proof that you don't still have it as cash hidden at home once the 12 months ends.

    I think you would be better off drawing out smaller amounts over the 12 months that could reasonably be spent on things without receipts, rather than drawing the whole lot out together and having no proof of where it's gone.

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