JSA/Clinical trials

marcofoo

Just a quick one...

Can a person claiming JSA continue to claim if they take part in paid clinical trials?

I do not know if clinical trialists have to pay tax/NI.

dmg24

Clinical trials can take different forms, but from my experience of them they are declarable as income, and the time spent participating must be declared as time in work/ unavailable for other work.

(The experience is that of a friend not my own, I am not that desperate for money!)

nexuss

Any work paid or not has to be declared.

marcofoo

nexuss wrote: »

Any work paid or not has to be declared.

But is it work?

dmg24

marcofoo wrote: »

But is it work?

Have you read my post?

I assume you have not taken part in one yet, you will find it is not a walk in the park!

marcofoo

dmg24 wrote: »

Have you read my post?

I assume you have not taken part in one yet, you will find it is not a walk in the park!

Got ur post now

No, I have not taken part.

What were your friends experiences if I may ask?

Widelats

marcofoo wrote: »

Got ur post now

No, I have not taken part.

What were your friends experiences if I may ask?

You will need to claim Severe Disablement Allowance after taking part as the drugs administered to you will surely screw up your health, so when you declare this also ask for, fill out, and hand in your SDA :rotfl:

Good luck i hope it goes well, you will have to declare it as sometimes the lab wants to keep you there for a week or to two monitor changes, side effects etc and this is not classed as looking for work i reckon.

liberatrix

Don't declare it because they won't give you a PAYE slip just a check you'll cash in a a bank. I strongly recommend doing trials as a source of income. I did two or three a year when at university at it made such a difference to my income plus all the time you have in units to prepare exams, reading or looking for jobs.

sammyjammy

liberatrix wrote: »

Don't declare it because they won't give you a PAYE slip just a check you'll cash in a a bank. I strongly recommend doing trials as a source of income. I did two or three a year when at university at it made such a difference to my income plus all the time you have in units to prepare exams, reading or looking for jobs.

Do you also strongly recommend people commit fraud?

KILL_BILL

I would not touch clinical trials with a barge pole at any time irrespective of wether the company stated that they had been approved by the goverment

if you want to end up looking like the elephant man, have all your fingers and toes cutt off etc and perhaps not work or have cancer for the rest of your life - then go for it

Horace

Accepting payment for participating in a clinical trial is work - you are being paid for your time and therefore if you are 'working' on a clinical trial then you will need to declare this income as it will no doubt have an effect on your JSA.

My advice is to tread very carefully when participating in such trials - they are not always safe and can cause you to have serious health problems or even death (there was a much publicised trial that went wrong a couple of years' ago). It isnt guaranteed that you will be given the placebo.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do but be warned that you do have to declare your payments as income regardless of their method of payment.