Hi all, for the last year while on UC my wife and i have both been acting as carers for our son who needs 2 people to look after him, one needs to be on standby during the night as he is aways getting up and 'doing things' and while hes awake he has challenging behaviours that take some controlling, now it has worked ok with us taking turns to be the one to look after him during the night time, before i gave up work i lost my last two jobs by falling a sleep in the day and my wife ended up epileptic due to sleep deprivation.
I have just been informed from UC that i need to look for work as only one person can claim CA ( which is the case here) and the other one can not be a carer in their eyes so must look for work. if i get a job it will mean that we can not look after our son the way he needs to be and so we would have to put him into care . we do not want to do this!!
what can we do??
anyone any advice please.
Thanks
Paul
I have just been informed from UC that i need to look for work as only one person can claim CA ( which is the case here) and the other one can not be a carer in their eyes so must look for work. if i get a job it will mean that we can not look after our son the way he needs to be and so we would have to put him into care . we do not want to do this!!
what can we do??
anyone any advice please.
Thanks
Paul