My husband has had to deal with our adult sons’s benefits with no knowledge of the processes for the last 7 years as my mental health issues meant that I could no longer do so. I’ve now had the help I needed to get back on track and started getting reacquainted with my son’s benefits again. I noticed on his UC that there was no mention of his ESA which he’d been getting for years before my breakdown. So we looked back through old bank statements and found that my son’s last payment was in 2018! There had been no change to his circumstances and as he’s autistic, no change to his disability. My son has missed out on more than £30,000 of benefits and I don’t know why. My husband is now on benefits too and the bills are pilling up. We can no longer live in our home and my son is having to stay with his 80 year old grandmother. I don’t know how we’re going to cope.
