Gareth Morgan
Managing Director, Ferret Information Systems, Cardiff
Member since 20th Feb 2004
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RE: Moving home resulted in the end of the AIP?
Mon 10-Nov-08 06:06 PM |
I imagine that they are thinking about one of two possibilities, both wrong.
An AIP can stop, inter alia, if:
the claimant no longer satisfies a condition of entitlement to SPC
or
a claimant who has no partner is provided with accommodation in a care home or an independent hospital on a permanent basis.
Could they have confused Supported Housing with Residential Care?
The conditions of entitlement issue relates to age, residence, partner's circumstances and making a valid claim.
Again, DMs have been known to confuse entitlement and assessment. It may be that they have decided that the capital value of the house was such that the tariff income would extinguish the calculated amount of benefit.
They may also think that a change of circumstances forces a new calculation but the only CoC that can affect an AIP is the ending of it and that returns to the 2 circumstances above.
If neither apply then the AIP continues.
It does of course open up the passporting of HB & CTB so that even after the house is sold, your client will be able to hold the capital, receive the mortgage interest and get full HB and CTB.
If it had been a Savings Credit only case then the capital value of the house, even in an AIP, could, of course,have an effect.
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