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Who keeps the claim if we split up?

hi!
So me and my partner have split up, but still share the same bedroom etc (as we are young with no other room at my grandparents'), so I acknowledge we should stay as a joint-claim until he has moved out as currently still "live like a couple". I wondered though when he moves out, would we each have to make a new claim or could I keep the current claim (and be reverted to single claim) and he make a new one? I say this as he is only on JSA which will be more simple than me who gets UC and ESA, I just got re-approved for ESA so it would make me incredibly anxious/depressed to have to start a new one and go through everything again etc when the time comes.
Thanks!
So me and my partner have split up, but still share the same bedroom etc (as we are young with no other room at my grandparents'), so I acknowledge we should stay as a joint-claim until he has moved out as currently still "live like a couple". I wondered though when he moves out, would we each have to make a new claim or could I keep the current claim (and be reverted to single claim) and he make a new one? I say this as he is only on JSA which will be more simple than me who gets UC and ESA, I just got re-approved for ESA so it would make me incredibly anxious/depressed to have to start a new one and go through everything again etc when the time comes.
Thanks!
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This was a a hypothetical question about the future when we are physically separate in different households, on how easy it would be to go back to a single claim for myself (like how fast etc) and whether I would have to go through the whole process again or I can keep my claim and he'll just be booted off so make his own single claim. We will be claiming jointly as a couple till he is out of the household entirely, that is no issue. I just don't want to wait a month when he is out of the household to receive what will be ESA and whatever benefits I get.
Sorry for the conclusion!