Over threshold when applied for UC on behalf of mother
Hello, looking to get some opinions on what the likely outcome of this is going to be as I am spiralling a bit with stress.
So my mother is disabled, quite late stage Huntington's disease, and I naturally help out with a lot of things including setting up her UC claim back in April '24.
To my knowledge she only had money in her current account and if I remember correctly was around 8k at the time when the claim was put in.
A claim review came through in December '25 and going through her statements before sending I saw a transaction from herself of £1000, I asked where this came from and it was from another account which she had savings in.
When the review happened they naturally queried this transaction and I told them about the account and how much was in it.
She's well under the threshold now however was over for roughly 10 months by my rough estimates going through the statements.
All statements from the other account from the date the claim went in are now with the claim reviewer, so they will obviously see that she was over for a period of time.
What is the likely outcome? I am very stressed out trying to handle everything that is going on with her at the moment (currently in the process of finding a nursing home to move to). I have financial LPA which UC are aware of if that makes any difference, will I have to pay the money back? I can't afford that. Will I be deemed responsible for this error even though I was not aware? Am I going to prison? Criminal record?
Losing my mind
England