Benefits

[English Rose]

I think the amount you have tied up in property is taken into account when applying for benefits, and if you owned a house outright worth £250,000 you wouldn't get any.

[KeithD]

I think the amount you have tied up in property is taken into account when applying for benefits, and if you owned a house outright worth £250,000 you wouldn't get any.

Nope. Otherwise all the 10,000's who lost their job in the last year would be selling a lot of houses.