My situation is I ran a successful business for many years, we had our second child (now 2) and time became very limited as our first child (now 6) is disabled and needs a lot of care so ended-up working part-time around 20 hrs per week.
We needed to rent a house and my earnings from SE were generally about £1,000 a month but we found-out we may be entitled to UC so started to receive this around a year ago (during Covid restrictions).
More recently the Job Centre has started to try and pressure me into earning more money - I'm called in to visit them most weeks now.
Understand why they are doing this and don't want to sound ungrateful, but with time as limited as it is, this is not helping me - in fact I feel I could be relapsing into depression.
They have been very vague when I've asked what my minimum income floor is or what I should be earning and no one at the Job Centre has been able to give me a definitive answer - could any of you 'shine a light' on this for me?
At the last meeting they suggested I should consider working for a company but can't see how this would fit with domestic life - I also plan on growing the business again in the future when I have more time - should I really throw away something that I've worked on for 15 years just like that?
It might be that I was 'late to the party' sorting everything out - working on an EHCP for our eldest and we have just received DLA for them which means my partner can classed as a Carer - would it be best for me to be primary carer for our youngest now?
What are your thoughts - any advice appreciated.