DS 16 has just been awarded enhanced rate of both elements of PIP; he’s moved over from child DLA.
I am appointee for him. His DLA has always been a part of the family pot in which we pay for all of his extra expenses, his therapies, his sensory equipment and so on. We would transfer him a bit of pocket money to his own account.
Now he’s 16, it feels more like it needs to be more managed as a separate entity of “his” money (it always has been his but it just went in to the family pot to cover everything).
However, he still has expensive therapies to be paid for as well as niche extra curricular which directly support his disabilities.
We are also going to have a reduction in income from the ‘loss’ of his DLA from the family pot.
I don’t know how best to sort this money for him. He doesn’t spend in the same way typical teens do. We can’t afford to cover his therapies ourselves so it would make sense to take some of his PIP to cover these. How do others manage this at 16?
TIA