Just hoping for a bit of advice. My mam has Alzheimer's and my sister who is oldest out the three of us has LPA, long story as to why she has it and the other two of us don't but my mam agreed that she would like her to do this so me and my brother were happy to go along with it. Little did we know that there was an ulterior motive for this, or so we think.
Just for some context, my dad died over 4 years ago now and my mam had the house and a portion of his money that was left and the rest was split equally between the three children. My mam started to change and show signs of dementia and on assessment, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. There was friction between the three of us and my sister got unbearable and was taking full control, refusing to let mam move into a care home even though she has more than enough money to fund herself. My sister was verbally and physically abusive towards my brother and I. Social services intervened and she is now in a care home, much to my sister's disappointment. While I was sorting the paperwork out with the social worker, we were doing a financial assessment and going through the bank statements and I uncovered a bank account we didn't know about, in my mam's name but with a substantial amount of money in it. After some digging it transpired that it belonged to my sister, the inheritance from our dad, she's been keeping it in a bank account belonging to my mam all the while she's been claiming from the DWP, for whatever she can get, JSA, PIP but had over £20K (undeclared) sitting there the whole time.
I've kept quiet about it, other than telling my brother, just so not to rock the boat but this week we attempted to as her to get some bits for our mam's room and clothes, as she is LPA and she went crazy at us, said she doesn't need to be told what our mam needs as she is the main carer and told us we can only go once a week to see our mam when she isn't there. My brother wants to contact the DWP or OPG about her, while I still don't want to cause any trouble.
Any thoughts?