Can I become Appointee?

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I am not sure where to post this. However, my 21 year old son has a chronic eating disorder and a cluster of anxiety disorders. He never completed his education (stopped attending school at 13, had infrequent tuition at a PRU and never gained any qualifications.). He has also been unable to maintain employment, and he refuses to claim benefits because he is afraid pressure will be put on him to change his rigid routines, or to undertake training that he cannot commit to. His routines revolve around cleaning, exercise, and rituals,

He rarely leaves the house, and I used to give him access to my online bank account, so he could at least buy his personal toiletries, clothes and so on, online, but his eating disorder has escalated and he has been withdrawing phenomenal amounts of money to spend on binges (he has bulimia). Therefore, I have changed the security details of my account.

Does anyone know if I could seek to be an appointee, and claim benefits for him. That way he would have a limited sum of money. I am not sure whether he would be classed as not having mental capacity to manage his finances, even if he has capacity to make other decisions. If so, how would I go about this?

Thanks

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I used to be a corporate appointee as part of my job & am currently appointee for my mum - in both cases the person was already claiming the benefit which is pretty standard as without a current claim there's no need for an appointee to support the claimant.

Could you help him to make the claim and then submit the application to become an appointee? Is there social work involvement who could help with this?

For corporate appointeeship I had to attend an in-person meeting with a DWP representative before they signed off on it but for my mum they approved it without a meeting - this may have been due my already being an approved appointee though.

I'm an appointee for my adult son. He does have a diagnosis of autism, and absolutely cannot control his own finances and he blows every penny on his games console. I claimed his pip as an appointee and had to have a meeting and ds had to agree to this, I was also able to claim uc in his name, dwp contact me, his mail for pip and uc is in my name and goes directly into my account also. I don't believe you have to have a diagnosis, but I believe the person who needs an appointee must lack some degree of capacity. My ds would spend his money on takeaways and games he has no concept of finances and thinks the bank just replenishes the balance every week.