can we still get income support

merlin68

Hubby prob starting a cleaning job tomorrow 11 hours a week, which will be 80. just wondered if we can still claim.

Zara33

merlin68 wrote: »

Hubby prob starting a cleaning job tomorrow 11 hours a week, which will be 80. just wondered if we can still claim.

If you work less than 16 hours per week you could still get IS.

Can I get Income Support?

It is for people who:

• are 16 to 59 years old
• have a low income
• work less than 16 hours a week
• are not in full-time study
• do not get Jobseeker's Allowance
• do not have savings above £16,000, and
• live in Great Britain

http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/Customers/WorkingAgeBenefits/Dev_015271.xml.html

suelees1

If he earns £80 they'll disregard £10 (unless you have a higher disregard because of a disability or a carer premium) so the £70 remaining will reduce your IS £ for £. In this situation he's working for a tenner a week.

dmg24

suelees1 wrote: »

If he earns £80 they'll disregard £10 (unless you have a higher disregard because of a disability or a carer premium) so the £70 remaining will reduce your IS £ for £. In this situation he's working for a tenner a week.

No, he is working for £80 a week. IS will then top up his income to the relevant level that the govt deems they need to live off.

alwaysonthego_2

dmg24 wrote: »

No, he is working for £80 a week. IS will then top up his income to the relevant level that the govt deems they need to live off.

Presuming you have children or a disability, you maybe better of if he can get an extra 5 hours either from his cleaning job or a seperate job and he will be able to claim WTC which will boost your income considerably.

suelees1

dmg24 wrote: »

No, he is working for £80 a week. IS will then top up his income to the relevant level that the govt deems they need to live off.

Ok so whichever way it's put it means the same thing - he's £10 a week better off in work. We've just come to the same conclusion but obviously from different angles.

In my original post I didn't mean it to sound as though it wasn't worth him working. A lot of people get a foot on the ladder in this way and it gets them into work.

However a £10 disregard for a couple hardly gives claimants an incentive to go to work (even though I did it myself many years ago)

Cozworth806

You could become self employed for 5 hours a week, and then claim working tax credit if your have children. It doesn't matter what you do, or if you earn anything from it, just that you work 5 hours a week etc.
Its daft but its the rules (worst answer ever!!!)

Zara33

Cozworth806 wrote: »

You could become self employed for 5 hours a week, and then claim working tax credit if your have children. It doesn't matter what you do, or if you earn anything from it, just that you work 5 hours a week etc.
Its daft but its the rules (worst answer ever!!!)

This has popped up before and i'm still confused how this actually works. How can you claim to work and not get any money for it?

vegankris

Zara33 wrote: »

This has popped up before and i'm still confused how this actually works. How can you claim to work and not get any money for it?

It would have to be for a self-employed job I'd imagine?

Zara33

vegankris wrote: »

It would have to be for a self-employed job I'd imagine?

So in other words fraud...

vegankris

Zara33 wrote: »

So in other words fraud...

In many cases, yes, but there would be exceptions, ie, a commission based job cold-calling where the employee is very unlucky and doesn't get any sales, so I'd imagine it's because of that this situation exists.