ESAcb, duty to report change of circumstances due to inheritance?

Means tested benefits are affected by income. Your CB ESA will be fine, but your IR ESA (which will be your premiums) are affected, as is your housing benefit and council tax.
To claim these you are ‘allowed’ up to 6K in savings. 6-16K and your amount is tiered accordingly. Over 16K and you are ineligible for means tested benefits.

Pleading ignorance is fine, but you will have to payback any monies you received by ‘accident’.

Hi, I messed up with part of your advice. I did ring the ESA advice line, but I forgot to write down the name of the advisor.
I did so first thing in the morning, not firing on all cylinders, because it just seemed so urgent. I do still have the call logged on my phone, though.
Verbally, I was told - to my surprise - that I will simply be put onto ESAcb and lose the Disability Income Guarantee element. However, who's to say that when I do get the letter I was informed of from them, a totally different decision will have been made?

Hi Gary,
I did have bank statements available, but all I said was I inherited over £16,000, and I don't remember giving a date when, or if the advisor asked.
Best case scenario, I'll willingly pay back any DIG outstanding with no further action from DWP.
As for HB and CT relief, I went to the council with my support worker because they hadn't replied to my change of circumstances inquiry, and discovered that I'm on a 'passported claim' due to my DWP circumstances.
This surprised me and prompted me to create this post to get best advice.

I've replied elsewhere about my phoning the DWP number you gave, above, and I'm waiting to hear back from them.
I do think I should approach an ADHD charity who have helped me with DWP issues in the past, about writing a back up letter that I was advised to submit after ringing the DWP.

Hi everyone who's contributed. I did get it all sorted in the end re: ESA. I now no longer receive any Disability Income Guarantee or any other means tested elements on my claim, but that's not so bad.
However, I'm now going to start another topic about when ESA automatically inform a local authority of a change of circumstances.

Thank you for all the help so far.