Posted in chat but thought here would be more appropriate
I'm really confused. Basically I had a full time 30k job a year ago which I've had to leave because my DS became severely disabled.
So now we live off Housing benefit, income support, carers allowance and child tax credit and child benefit. As well as getting most of the council tax paid, I think I pay about £14 a month.
Anyway my partner has asked about moving in, we've been together a number of years now and DS loves him, but I just can't work out if we can afford to.
At the moment he's a lodger at someone else's house. He pays £70 a week for all bills and rent, which suits him because about 18 months ago got made redundant with no pay out and has basically taken up bar work from which he gets minimum wage and is sometimes quite short of full time hours
It would support me a great deal to have DP living here, as that means someone to help with night watch when he gets in from work (at 3am) and then I could get 3 hours sleep and then get up and get DS ready and to school and picked up while DP sleeps in the day etc. At the moment I don't get much time for sleep at all.
But I can't seem to find a way to work out how much we would lose and if it could be covered by DPs wage. We are already on our knees financially.