Evelyn D

I feel a lot like I've just stepped off a precipice and into a place I have no idea how to navigate.

I am managing so much in terms of voluntary and some paid work, and what it means is very soon I will have to become self employed. I feel a lot like this situation is so wrenching because I want to have a better life but the tax office want me to declare after just £1000 earnings, which will take months to reach at my current rate of earning. If I say to the DWP I am self employed, I start the rapid countdown to removal of support and to decision making around my income, which isn't realistic.

I feel so much like I can't keep living the way I am but the door to success is so firmly closed by these rules that are so precarious and difficult to understand. I feel trapped.