question about Tax credits ?????

Shaun_adams

No she has constant fits like I stated but if I was working every day up to 8 hours a day, she would be capable of working 18 hrs around which is 2 ½ a day.

Also you have to take into account this business will be run from my front room where the sofa is on my pc.

I can’t she how sitting in a home on a sofa would be a problem, packaging some items.

Plus the fact that she will be getting 24hr care off me.

Is there something wrong in asking if it would be better to employ here or both be partners.

GlasweJen

Shaun_adams wrote: »

No she has constant fits like I stated but if I was working every day up to 8 hours a day, she would be capable of working 18 hrs around which is 2 ½ a day.

That doesn't make sense, if she can she can and if she can't she can't.

You can't say "yes but only for me", if she is capable of working for her OH then she is capable of working full stop. If she is recieving IS on the grounds of incapacity then she must be completely unable to work or only able to do "permitted work" or "supported permitted work" this is usually the first step in getting a disabled/long term sick person back into the work place and permission from the DWP is required. As it happens this work is never more than 15 hours a week so if she can work 18 like you said then she is in reciept of the wrong benefit and should be on JSA and registered as actively seeking work.

I'm sorry but i don't make the rules.

Shaun_adams

Ok so on JSA they will meet these

16hrs a week over 7 days which is 2 1/2hrs a day or no more than 2 1/2hrs a day, with days off if she has to go home.

She needs constant care 24hrs a day Home, travel to work, at work and travel home.

She needs constant breaks and can’t work around anything dangerous.

She has quite a few fits and mini fits a days so needs someone to help her 24hrs who knows how to deal with this.

Also really she needs to work at home with all this so do you know any jobs like this if so please give me the details.

So all in you are saying that if she feels she could manage a little bit of sitting on a sofa packaging a few items a day she must be ok to work.

So what is the disabilityWTC for when you can only claim them if you do 16hrs a week.

Also when she thinks she will be ok to do a little work if you can call this work, she will sign off IS and work for me from home so will only get WTC which is perfectly fine ?????

DaisyFlower

Shaun_adams wrote: »

I was just trying to see what she could get if I started working (My own business).

I think that line says it all - you say "I started working" rather than your GF.

What a contrived method to get more benefits whilst doing the bare minimum.

As for her parents not claiming youth IB for her, maybe they were happy to support their child themselves rather than the state doing it.

Would love to see how you plan to finance this "new" business, pay both your own wage plus at least 16 hours min wage/NI conts for your GF.

Shaun_adams

As for her parents not claiming youth IB for her, maybe they were happy to support their child themselves rather than the state doing it. (Maybe they didn't know)


I Think that line does say it all What would my gilfirend get if I start my own buiisness.

Because now I have found out if she does 16 hrs a week she can get WTC, so at least she will have something.

She also gets DLA.

She will be a partner as she is my partner in real life and that is how i will treat her in this buissness, so we will share the money that we recieve, so no minmum wage and she will be doing 16hrs where I will be doing 30-40hrs.

both of us will be paying NI.

I don't really care what you think as if I was trying to milk the system I would not be trying to start a buissness and lose some of here money in the process as I would be trying to get her DLA increase and Blue badge, Free transport and other stuff.

GlasweJen

or you could just get her supported work or permitted work through the job centre? that way she's earning min wage and gets to keep her IS while getting out the house for a while and gaining some independance and experience in the work place?

Myself and people with epilepsy have replied to your threads and explained that we or our partners who have epilepsy work so it seems to me like your gf just needs support and that doesn't necessarily mean carer 24/7 (though i know a girl in the local McD's who has a carer with her at work so it's not impossible).

ETA i'm sure the girl from McD's said her carer will go away after 6 months once the workplace is fully adapted to her. she only works on the tables area and i'm sure her disability is some form of cerebral palsy but i didn't want to ask too many questions of her. she does enjoy the independance though and hopes to get off IB and onto WTC but at the moment can only handle 14 hours a week spread over 4 days.

Oldernotwiser

Shaun_adams wrote: »

She will be a partner as she is my partner in real life and that is how i will treat her in this buissness, so we will share the money that we recieve, so no minmum wage .

What a strange definition of partnership!

GlasweJen

have you actually asked the job centre yet? if she gets a job with their support then all her benefits are there should she need to stop work within a year, without their support she will need to claim the new ESA which focuses on what your OH CAN do with the goal to get her back to work which doesn't appear to be what you want at the moment.

Shaun_adams

The thing is that she is not very well so I don’t think she would be ok to work.

The reason I thought she may be ok to work with me was that fact that we will be in the same room, as I will be running my business from home in the front room on the pc, so I can look after her 24hrs a day.

And she can do as little or as much as he wants, also she is in a safe environment.

If they could get her a job where she has a safe environment + constant care 24/7 at work as well as taking her and bring her home also an understand employer, that would be fine but I don’t think they would offer this.

If you have ever heard of anything I would appreciate the number, as I contacted the job centre and they didn't have anything like this.

If she does decide she doesn't want to do this anymore it will be IS and if I work she won't get anything.

Also if the business did not work they would still need to do the above if she is in the same condition as now so still do they have anything like above.


I want get anything for caring for her but this is irrelevant, she will get WTC and DLA so she will have at least something.

PasturesNew

If it's a partnership with no minimum wage, then she's self-employed. Not employed.

However, if you imagine that she doesn't actually do anything for the OP, then they'd be claiming her tax free allowance AND any benefits just for saying she was working the appropriate X hours per week.

I am self-employed, nobody knows how many hours it actually takes me to generate my income.... that would mean, if there were any benefits payable, I could claim I worked 1 hour per week, 17 hours per week or 40 hours per week, whichever I felt would be the most beneficial. And the same if I had a partner sat beside me, also watching Diagnosis Murder (which is what I'm doing right now)