Just a reminder, before I go - not one person, not a single one trying and failing to defend the grifting OP has come up with a single word that negates what I'm saying :) The truth hurts.
I have lots to do tomorrow, busy busy, must fly. So I will just remind the OP that everyone in real life thinks she's a beggar too, except for her fellow beggars.
She can just cash the cheque and stop trying to hide her money. But she won't, because she's a beggar.
Normal people respond to a windfall with oh great, I can pay off that debt I can go on holiday or whatever. OP came her to find out how to avoid temporarily losing some of her taxpayer funded benefits now she has had an unexpected windfall.
She is taking charity from taxpayers that she doesn't currently need.
Benefits are never ever meant to be a lifestyle choice. They are supposed to be there because you haven't got the money to pay for things and are on the bones of your arse.
Your "benefits" are other people's hard earned money.
So just use your own money to pay for your own life choices like a normal person.
And when you run out of it you can re apply for benefits.
You are not entitled to taxpayer funded benefits if you currently have enough money to pay your bills and live your life. That's the point.
You are not entitled to use taxpayer funded benefits as your nest egg, and you are not entitled to have a nest egg while begging money from the state.
You are not legally or ethically entitled to hide money or squirrel it away or do anything else at all with that money except use it to fund your own life.
As of today you are begging from the state and taking other people's money that you do not need. It's pretty unbelievable you have the nerve to say this out loud.
Cash the cheque and accept that you will get less free money from other people. Or keep pretending you don't get it and keep trying to hide the money from the state so you can keep begging free money from other people.
Because that is exactly and precisely what you are doing.100%.
Now you know how most people will feel about you when they hear you're trying to squirrel away or otherwise trick the state so you can keep money while continuing to beg from the state.
But I daresay you already knew that which is why you came here anonymously rather than asking anyone in real life.
Don't worry OP, living a miserable grifting life always scurrying around trying to find loopholes so you can keep begging is your own punishment :)
(Oh and I know OP has been frantically reporting me, it doesn't matter, she had to read this. It's very satisfying when someone is confronted with the truth, for once in their grifting life :))