Can you move to a friends or parents in the meantime? You will def have entitlement if you are out of the house. It's very VERY hard to get this payment. I didn't grant one in the entire time I was at Clink - but I didn't regret it, everything worked out the way it should.

Can't he bunk in with a mate? It would make everything easier.

ETA - otherwise you will just have to share the finances as you would as flatmates - are you working atm?

sorry its come to this chicken xoxoxo