If you are on disability and become the beneficiary of a life insurance does it affect your benefits?

When you are in receipt of disability living allowance or DLA as it is also known you will also be on another state benefit such as income support or invalidity benefit and when you receive the money from the life insurance upon which you are waiting you will need to contact your local benefit section of the dhss to inform them of the extra money which you have received as it is by law that you signed a document when you made your application for the state benefit that you agreed to contact them should your circumstances change as will be the case for you and if the ammount of money which you receive is above a certain ammount then yes it could well affect your ammount of either income support or invalidity benefit but as long as you are still qualified to receive one of these benefits even if the ammount drops drastically as long as you receive something on one of these then your disability living allowance will not be affected and you do not have to imform the DLA benefit office of your windfall unless it affects your eligibility for receiving income support or invalidity benefit in which case you need to notify the DLA section of the dhss that your state benefit has been stopped and then because you are not receiving the same benefits as you were before that will make you also unentitled to receive disability living allowance as one of the criteria for being eligible for dla is that you must be in receipt of one of the other state benefits .