Universal credit

[deelfc37]

Can anyone please help? I'm moving in with my partner, I don't work but he does full time, upon checking universal credit this morning it said I will have to have a work coach? Does that mean we both have to work or can we just have a one income household? Advice online isn't very clear I'm so confused with it all.

Thank you.

You will need to claim as a couple, use one of the benefit checkers to see if you still qualify benefits - I think once the kids hit school age you are meant to seek part time hours, but if your partner is earning over the threshold for benefits you won't get any so they won't care if you work or not. Look at it this way, the government expects us all to try to support ourselves not rely on benefits so whilst there's nothing wrong with being a sahm it's not at the taxpayers expense

It depends how much your dp earns and they age of your dc.
The amount you need to earn is per household not per person.

All the threshold are clearly set out online.