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'Employing' a spouse who is also SE

ViolaLass · 2009-08-09 21:06:33

I get freelance work, sometimes more than I can manage. My husband has proposed that he could do some of the work for me (as I am trying to build my business up so don't want to turn work down at the moment) as and when I have too much. We are both already registered SE. I imagine I would technically be employing him - it…

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supermonkey Posts: 759 Forumite

15 September 2009 at 11:24PM

Hi Jimmo,

Thanks for all your help with this. That's cleared things up a lot from the Tax & NI point of view. I had an appointment at the job centre and I explained all this to them and gave them the dates expecting them to tell me I had to come off altogether.

It turns out that my benefit continues, but for any weeks where I earn over a certain amount, I won't receive any JSA. But if the next week I do not have any projects then I will get JSA for that week.

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