Home Advice and support Savings and means-tested benefits. Savings and means-tested benefits The amount of savings you and your partner have will affect the money you receive from means-tested benefits. Benefits affected by savings An increase in savings can affect how much you receive in benefits.
The DWP will count money left over from the sale of your home in assessing your benefits. Using your savings There are many reasons why savings might increase: You could get a compensation payment or inheritance in the form of property or cash.
You could move in with someone who also has savings. Shares or bonds go up in value and pay dividends. You start to get a private or work pension. You could: think about buying a new warm coat, thicker curtains, an upgrade to your central heating or installing double glazing carry out essential repairs or adaptations to your home buy a modest new car move the money to a trust fund, but only if you already have one set up Find a benefits adviser Turn2us.
Help to Save If you want to save while on benefits, the government has introduced Help to Save. Help to Save GOV. Was this page helpful? Yes No. Tell us how it helped. For example if you or your partner are disabled. What you get depends on your circumstances - particularly your age and whether you claim as a couple.
You can use the Turn2us benefits calculator to get an idea of what you should get. If you get Income Support, you might qualify for help with your housing costs. What you can get depends on whether you rent or own your home, and how you pay for it. If you rent your home, you might qualify for Housing Benefit when you claim Income Support. This is to help pay for your rent - find out how much you could get on GOV. If you own your home, you might get additional Income Support payments to help pay your service charges and ground rent.
You might also be able to get a government loan to help pay the interest on your mortgage or loans for improvements and repairs. You can get an additional Income Support payment to pay your service charge and ground rent. You can get a loan from the DWP to help pay your mortgage interest, as well as interest on loans taken out to pay for things like:.
To get an idea of how much you could get, contact your nearest Citizens Advice. Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer. Top links Housing benefit. What to include as savings You should enter as savings any money that you can access relatively easily or financial products that can be sold on.
Jointly owned capital If you own capital jointly with other people you would normally be assessed as having an equal share. The government's formula for working out interest The calculator works out the weekly income, or tariff income, that the government assumes you get on these savings when assessing your benefit entitlement this is shown by the box 'Assumed weekly income from savings'.
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