Excecutive to my belated son

deedee59uk
deedee59uk Online Community Member Posts: 2 Listener
edited February 2023 in Universal Credit (UC)
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
    deedee59uk Online Community Member Posts: 2 Listener
    EESA
    disability premiums 
    council tax
    housing benefit 
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    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
    calcotti Online Community Member Posts: 10,001 Championing
    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.

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