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Charities are not allowed to make private deals, and if the local branch[es] had had a relationship with the deceased then they would have seen no reason to do so. Even if they could.
This case attracted a lot of mainstream media interest, and in their value scale the benefits' receiving daughter was far less deserving than the so-called greedy charities. Their reader comments, which I suppose are public opinion, agreed, as did their feature writers, some of whom are quite respectable.
It should also be remembered that the death in service payment the deceased received before the daughter was born was a non contributory payment made by her late husband's employer, and not savings made by him, so I for one can see absolutely no moral claim against it, or its proceeds; and it was used in bringing this idle woman up. If her mother had not saved and invested wisely, but instead had blown through it and then claimed benefits, then there would have been no estate to claim against.
What surprises me rather is that the DWP isn't intervening, since the structuring of the settlement to preserve benefit entitlement is only a slap in the face of the testatrix, but an insult to people who work hard and pay their taxes.

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