My husband currently gets income based ESA of £6.85 per week. We are in the process of buying my motability car as I have lost my high rate DLA on transfer over to pip. As the money will be coming from his private pension and going straight to motability sales will it affect any if his ESA benefit? I know if he has savings it counts but is is going straight into the bank account and straight out again so not sure if it counts. Confused so any help would be gratefully received.
We can't give detailed financial advice on the forum, you might want to get face to face advice from a trained advisor before proceeding.
In principle it should not be a problem, the difficulty is that it is potentially at the discretion on a DWP Decision Maker, the purchase should not be a problem, the difficulty may be down the lie if the pension temporarily appears in your account.
One way around this would be to have the money paid direct to the car dealership, if that is possible.
Failing that I would write to the DWP and explain what you are doing.
Gordon
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