My partner and I have been together for four years and lived together (house owned by me) for a year and a half. He has school aged children who we have every other weekend. He was made redundant last month and has decided to try setting up a business. He has some savings and thinks this will run out after 6 months. He wants to continue paying his child maintenance at the rate he was when he was employed (hasn’t told his ex about the redundancy) and he pays £600 rent to me which I currently rely on because I’m studying and have reduced my hours at work. I’m pretty stuffed if he runs out of money as I have two more years left of study. Neither of us have ever claimed benefits so not sure how it works (we’re in our 40s). Can he claim anything to help tide him over a bit?