Folks – my dad has a form of dementia that’s getting progressively worse. My mum is going through a means testing process in the near future to evaluate how much money they can get towards external support.
She’s been told that if her and my dad have a joint account then the DWP will look at total household income, whereas if they have invidual accounts, they will only look at my father’s income.
My mum is insistent that this is correct and that she has been told this by three different sources, two of which are banks, the other is the Alzheihmers society.
This just doesn’t seem right. I will call Citizens Advice when they open but figured there must also be people on here who will have some knowledge and experience of what happens in this situation.