Hello, I'm new to all this but wondered if I could just get some friendly advice.
Bit of background: basically I've just moved in with my partner who is living in a council supplied property. 2 days later his young daughter has moved in from a different partner. We are in a 1 bed so we know and are actively looking at getting a 2 bed property.
My OH is on pip and was on income related ESA. I've become his carer ( he has a mental health condition ) and I was on income support which has now been stopped. I'm only on carers allowance.
His ESA got changed to contribution based, I believe was because I was on income support.
My question is can we know try and get a joint claim or change his ESA back to income related?
Our money at the moment is all up the air. We are waiting to hear back from HB and CT. He now claims child benefit and waiting to hear back from child tax credits.
We keep receiving letters with different information. As you can imagine we are extremely stressed and can't even afford his anti psychotic 
- disaster! I'm sorry if this is long and in the wrong place, we are struggling and I just need help to put his mind as ease a little.