Your rights to council properties If the person you care for lived in a council or housing association property and they were named on the tenancy agreement when they passed away, then as a carer you may have the right to continue living there. However, this right depends on the type of tenancy and your connection to the person you cared for. It's called succession. If you can stay, you will take over their tenancy and any rent payments.

Your ability to stay in the property under 'succession' depends on several factors:

• if you were living with them before they died and it was your main home
• if you were living together as a couple/li>
• if you were related to the person who died/li>
• how long you had lived with the person who died/li>
• the type of tenancy they had and how long they had it for/li>
• what the tenancy agreement says - it might give you more rights to take over the tenancy/li>

If you had a joint tenancy, then you can simply stay on living there. However if there has already been one 'succession' you're unlikely to be permitted another.