When you receive benefits, you agree to conditions where they are means tested, one of those conditions is that they monitor your bank account - this is how EQ served time in prison.The DWP might view it different as it being gifted to her and not earned. I don’t know though. Maybe because it goes into a PayPal account they have no way of seeing these payments go in, because let’s face it there are thousands of them at it not just CLA.
TikTok 'gifts' are tax deductible and need to be declared on a tax return to HMRC. This is in the terms and conditions when creating a creator fund.
HTHs