We are separating and he is my carer (No doubt he'll probably read this, as he did last time I posted about him 🙄 ). Atm I get esa at couples rate, pip and housing/ct benefit. I know I need to contact adult services about help re the care, but that's not an immediate worry as I have family and friends rallying around.
He is in the spare room now as he has no local family he could stay with, so how do we go about splitting up finances? He doesn't have any income of his own to use (as he couldn't, as he was looking after me), but while he is still under this roof surely applying for a job would affect my Esa? We're swapping the joint account for two single ones and everything will be paid solely to me for now, with the idea to divide what's left after bills between the two of us. But doing this, it will take months to save up enough for him to leave...?
Luckily it is currently amicable, but I don't know if it will stay like that if he is here for months and months!
Has anyone been through similar and has any advice?
Thanks :)