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Client at age 18 had his mother designated as his appointee, no problems at that time, mental health problems etc.
He’s now 22 and having problems accessing his money (ESA/PIP), mum now not allowing access to this money.
How can he revoke the appointeeship?
He considers that he can now cope without her intervention.
[ Edited: 25 Sep 2017 at 02:55 pm by richpor ]Client at age 18 had his mother designated as his appointee, no problems at that time, mental health problems etc.
He’s now 22 and having problems accessing his money (ESA/PIP), mum now not allowing access to this money.
How can he revoke the appointeeship?
He considers that he can now cope without her intervention.
But can he (cope, that is). you say “mental health problems etc” - did that include incapacity to deal with his money? if so, was the CoP/Social services involved? and why/in what way is mother not allowing access? at all, or just only giving him pocket money and she still paying his bills and the like?
If it is just an appointeeship (not CoP etc) then the procedure is in the guidance section 5402 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578275/part-05-appointee.pdf .
I generally advise people to write in to DWP explaining that they feel that they now have capacity to manage their own benefit claims and so want the appointeeship to be revoked. DWP should write to appointee, if appointee agrees appointeeship is revoked. If appointee disagrees DWP have to do another visit to assess capacity.