is this a deprivation of assessts

[moneyquestion5]

Long story short. Married. House almost paid off. I have 2 disabled children. H is in the process of dumping us and sailing off into the sunset (or wherever there are no caring responsibilities). we do not get UC or anything due to his income and his savings.
I have inherited recently some money and would be able to by H out of the house. I will need, moving forward UC as I cannot work due to caring responsibilities. Would the use of my savings to pay H out count as a deprivation of assessts?

Generally speaking, buying a house to live in is looked at leniently.

They're looking for spends that you have done in order to have benefit entitlement - it's pretty obvious here that you're spending the money in order to stay in your home rather than in order to get extra benefits

Make sure you have a financial settlement in place before you buy him out. Otherwise, he could very well ask for some more equity as part of a settlement. Keep your inheritance out of family finances, it should fall outside joint assets if it was acquired close to or after relationship breakdown.

No, you are using your money to put a roof over your head.

Are you looking at buying him out on a 50:50 basis? I'd take legal advice before you do anything - if he's leaving you with all the care of your joint kids and their disabilities do not allow you to work, surely you must be entitled to a greater share of the marital assets in order to take care of them?

Sorry he's putting you in this situation OP, men can be so shit sometimes.

I think you will be fine @moneyquestion5

From SCOPE.

A benefit claimant is allowed to use inherited money to buy a single property to live in, and the purchase is not considered to be deprivation of capital.

BENEFITS AND WORK say similar. So does SHELTER.

If you are on Income Related ESA however, you may have some of that taken away if there is any of the inheritance left after you have bought the property.