Kyla Harris, the co-creator and star of BBC comedy drama series We Might Regret This, has been with her partner for eight years.
But they won't move in together, because it means she could lose some of her means-tested funding.
"No-one should have to decide whether to choose love or to pay their bills," she says.
It's an issue she draws on in her series, co-created with Lee Getty, which follows Freya, an artist with tetraplegia - a partial or complete loss of sensory and motor function in all four limbs - her boyfriend, Abe and best friend, Jo.
The Guardian has described the series as "trailblazing" and Harris says she wants the show to delve into issues that have "really not been on screen before".
