For the past 15 years I've been my son's full time carer, things have come to a head recently and it's been decided that due to the levels of violence he's capable of he's a danger not only to me but to the public and a full time, residential setting is needed.
Currently we live with my dp who recently had his hours reduced at work from 30 to 24.......in all honesty this suited us due to my son's care needs who.already received 2 -1 care with his respite carers and in school. But the reality is he earns £180 a week.
We've always got by with a mix of dps wages, tax credits, carers allowance and my son's DLA (( half of which paid for extra respite to keep him in a stable routine )) But by all means aren't rolling in it, no savings etc.
I've phoned up to let the DWP know whats happening and they've advised me that I won't be able to claim anything and dp doesn't do enough hours to claim tax credits, so we'd have to pay all mortgage, bills, council tax etc from £180 a week. The obvious solution is for dp to get more hours which he's trying to do and I find a job which again, I've been looking at for a while (( which isn't easy as my cv not only has zero on it pretty much my emotional state is so bad right now I can't even make a phonecall, I've barely functioned since the decision was made tbh ))
Is there anything I'm missing ?? Even jobseekers or something for 6 months to give me some breathing space and calm down would be a huge help.