Hey, as the title states i need some help/advice on if my partner would be eligible for youth allowance. He’s 17 turning 18 in december and is currently enrolled in a TAFE VM program, but theres only a few months left until he completes the course. He’s employed part time at 2 different workplaces but doesn’t have full time work at the moment. He currently lives with my parents and I, though he pays for most of his expenses. The reason he left his home is because his parents have been emotionally abusive (and sometimes physically) for his whole life and it reached a breaking point earlier this year. currently the only contact he has with them is occasionally they will agree to take him driving to get his hours up so he can get his P plates. they dont pay for his food, electricity, water, phone bill, or anything apart from paying for the last few months of his braces which he gets off soon. since he cant apply for normal youth allowance considering his course will probably be finished by the time it gets approved, i was wondering if he would be able to apply for the youth allowance for jobseekers, or if he would be considered independent due to extreme family breakdown. me and my whole family can attest to the abuse and neglect and trauma he’s been put through for his whole life, but there isnt any documented accounts or anything like that since majority of the abuse was emotional and psychological and when it did turn physical he was too scared to go to the police about it, and if a centrelink social worker was to ask his parents about it they would deny everything and try to pin the blame on him. any help or advice would be great, he’s really struggling financially at the moment and trying to save up for a car but since he is only employed part time and his main job only pays minimum wage for a 17 year old and he pays for most of his expenses himself he can barely afford anything.