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I have recently been taking care of a family’s friend relative as they are unwell , I did this free of charge and out of the goodness of my heart I never once asked for payment as I was doing it as a favour , now the person is better the family want to gift me £1000 cash to say thank you to me , my iva review is in a months time , I don’t really want cash laying around my home , my iva have only asked for 3 months worth of bank statements , if I was to pay this into my account in say 3 months time when the review is over do you think this would be okay ? Or am I better off asking a family member to keep it for me in their account ,

Thank you .

I would ask them to keep it for you otherwise your iVA may well swallow it up.

Ask them to keep it for you, for a while. Your IP might have asked for 3 months statements before, but they might decide on 12 months at any time, or to look back at any period in the future.