RE: My carer who live with me

My carer moved in with me in 2018. In a local authority council flat in London. My carer is my lodger.
My carer claims carer's allowance for me. My carer has been declared as a lodger as someone who lives with me for the purposes of ESA and I have declared to Council Tax and to Housing Benefit and to my council. Everything has been declared and my claims for ESA and PIP, Housing Benefit and Council Tax have been unaffected. My carer/friend has occasional work with a SME and doesn't get a regular income from that as the SME is very light income and they receive full Carers Allowance for being on a small income (practically non-existent income) He has no savings or investments.

I claim Personal Independence Payment and recently I have been award enhanced rates for both care and mobility.
I also claim ESA income related. I receive housing benefit and Council Tax reduction at full rate because I receive PIP and my carer receives carers allowance.

I have been encouraging my carer to claim Universal Credit because I think that to depend solely on carer's allowance and my income is unfair and he should have more money coming in even if he is a carer for me the majority and if he is on practically no income from the SME a mental health related social enterprise as a graphic designer. My carer is 58 years old in general good health but I think that they have some underlying health issues that do have some interference in their functioning but they are serial procrastinators and do not go out to resolve issues with GP or raise the matter.

I have encouraged them to claim Universal Credit in their own separate claim - but they think that this make things more complicated for them - and they have failed to even get any advice into the matter and left things for several years on inertia and they could have had a better and they are missing out on money they should/could be getting. I am writing this post to get some advice about this if it is available in this area.

If my friend were to claim universal credit as a lodger in my flat in their own right - would it have any impact or effect on my ongoing claim for ESA and PIP - should there be any problems? My carer is my friend - there is no romantic or otherwise relationship - we are simply good friends who get along most of the time and survived the pandemic fairly well depending and relying on each other especially since I have significant troubles that interfere with my life including getting out and about and with fatigue issue and the multiple health problems I have.

I t would be good to get advice wherever we can so we can build up a picture of the options my carer has available before deciding to take any action to seek to improve their income without any complications or unexpected detriments or consequences upon their lives and hopes to not be disrupted in the help they give to me and they do help me well over 40hours per week that meets the definition of carer for the Universal Credit. I would be grateful to get some advice or some helpful signposting to understand how a lodger/carer in a household claiming universal credit for themselves needs to proceed when living at a residence of the person they care for who receives ESA-support group income related old style so we can understand if there are or would be any problems in the situation to understand.

I have Aspergers syndrome autism and ADHD and this affects my ability to communicate and I may have repeated myself above and this may well be because my conditions to communication deficit - I thank you for your patience to reread to absorb the above matters and be grateful for the advice you might give me to help my friend carer to be encouraged in their situation to claim the money they are missing out on as I feel they are unnecessarily depriving themselves of the potentially more independence they could be enjoy away from me by having more of their own financial security. I hope that is understandable that I want them to take better care of themselves as I think that they need to care for themselves more and feel encouraged to do so as much as possible.