My wife and I have been living in Spain for 5 years and are resident there and claiming Disability Living Allowance (My wife) and Carers allowance (Me) plus my wife's state pension.
We will have to move back to the UK early next year as we will lose our home and cannot afford to stay there.
We will be coming back to the uk with little money, our two state pensions because I will be 65 by then plus my wife's DLA but no carers allowance for me as I will have lost it when becoming age 65.
The Citizens Advice, Age UK and the council's housing people have been of little use advice-wise and are saying we will have to pass a 'habitual residents test'. Having looked at this I can't see we would have much trouble passing as we have children and other relatives living here but don't know for sure?.
One of our children will become my wife's carer and we would hope to live near her in a London borough where we have one other child living also. The housing people say we would have to live in that borough for at least three months first before being able to ask for help from the housing people and/or any benefits agency.
My wife is at present on the middle level of DLA but I am fairly confident she will be put up on the higher rate after a new assessment is sent shortly and I understand a new assessment know as PIPS (I believe) is coming into force soon and would think she will be put on the higher rate of the two when that change comes about.
So I basically need some advice as to what to do and when. Needelp.
We will have to move back to the UK early next year as we will lose our home and cannot afford to stay there.
We will be coming back to the uk with little money, our two state pensions because I will be 65 by then plus my wife's DLA but no carers allowance for me as I will have lost it when becoming age 65.
The Citizens Advice, Age UK and the council's housing people have been of little use advice-wise and are saying we will have to pass a 'habitual residents test'. Having looked at this I can't see we would have much trouble passing as we have children and other relatives living here but don't know for sure?.
One of our children will become my wife's carer and we would hope to live near her in a London borough where we have one other child living also. The housing people say we would have to live in that borough for at least three months first before being able to ask for help from the housing people and/or any benefits agency.
My wife is at present on the middle level of DLA but I am fairly confident she will be put up on the higher rate after a new assessment is sent shortly and I understand a new assessment know as PIPS (I believe) is coming into force soon and would think she will be put on the higher rate of the two when that change comes about.
So I basically need some advice as to what to do and when. Needelp.