People tend to come out of the woodwork when a family member passes away and leaves inheritance money to some folks…and not others.

The young man who wrote this story is getting some blowback after folks in his family learned that he’s getting the lion’s share of an inheritance.

Read on and see what you think about what he had to say.

AITA for thinking it’s fair I got most of the inheritance?

“I (24m) am from a working class family in the UK where we’ve always earned enough not to be worried about money but don’t earn enough to have much money to spare.

As many UK students will know, this falls into the “working class poverty gap” for student loans where your family earns enough that your student loan is very low but your family don’t actually have the spare income to pay for you to go to university.

He worked hard to get where he is.

I managed to get my undergraduate degree in medical science through money I’d saved from working several jobs for a year and from working through university as well as relying on what little support my mother could afford whilst getting no support from my deadbeat father, who thinks it was selfish of me to want a degree (he has one).

My sister and my cousins also thought it was selfish of me to want to go to the university I did. I got into a Russel Group University into a competitive course through resitting exams and studying hard whilst working.

These people just sound jealous…

None of them got anywhere near the entry requirements in any of their exams because at their own admission, they didn’t like school and didn’t want to study. I also disliked school and didn’t want to study but I wanted more for myself. This causes me a lot of guilt still.

Anyway, my dream was always to become a doctor and I’ve gotten to the final stage of entry twice without success. Regardless, financially it isn’t an option for me so I let it go and work a grad job.

He got some big news.

Recently, my grandmother has informed me she has a large amount of money saved and has actually been largely living off of my late grandfather’s pensions for years (he passed away suddenly of an heart attack).

She has offered to give me the lion’s share of this money if I will reapply and get in to study medicine. She would have enough to live off after that and her health isn’t great and so sadly she doesn’t look like she has much longer left anyway.

Her logic is that my sister and my 3 cousins already have jobs and houses as well as two of them having degrees from a local university and so they don’t need a large amount of money where it could be used to help me.

Not everyone sees it that way…

They disagree and see it as favouritism and say they could use that money as a university fund for their children or renovating their houses.

I’ve been called a leech and my sister went as far as to accuse me of coercing a sick old lady into signing money away to me. I haven’t accepted yet and I haven’t told my family this but I do think I need the money more.

AITA?”

Check out what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person said he’s NTA.

Another individual agreed.

This Reddit user had a lot to say.

Another person spoke up.

And this individual shared their thoughts.

He has a right to keep the money his grandmother set aside specifically for him!

Thought that was satisfying? Check out what this employee did when their manager refused to pay for their time while they were traveling for business.