JSA & Self-Employedness

maybered

Hello Moneysavers!

I've been a lurker/reader for a while but I have a buurning question

Unfortunately I claim Jobseekers Allowance at the moment. However, (while I look for a part-time/full-time position,) I'm doing some self-employed work, under 16hrs per week. (Currently registering as self-employed with HMRC....thats a whole other fun time...)

The problem is they won't accept my "B7" - declaring my earnings from work without a payslip. But I don't receive a payslip. In fact - I don't usually invoice outside of the PayPal system. (I work with international businesses on a friendly basis and work on a 50% before, 50% upon product delivery scheme...)

I can't use received payments as evidence because some of the money from these payments goes straight towards paying for resources (such as outsourcing.) This wouldn't represent my work earnings appropriately.

Short of creating my own payslip to myself I'm not sure what to do.... Can anyone advise?

To be honest I'm considering signing off as the money I earn self-employed in one week in under 16hrs is worth several weeks JSA. Unfortunately work isn't dependable....so I'm not sure what implication that has for signing on again if I should need to????? (And believe me...I'd only sign on again if I really needed to.)

dhs87

If I'm correct, any money you receive from work you have done is equally reduced from your JSA. Therefore, if you earn over the amount, you get nothing for that week.

For me (just mystery shopping, leaflet delivery, retail audits, nothing major), they wanted a profit/loss account since June, which was when I started. Otherwise, they'd ask for a year.

They're still deciding on my claim and it has been nearly six weeks. I haven't done any work since signing on as it was simply not worth it as it would be deducted from JSA. If I get a week where I find work which pays well (yea, right!) then I'd take it.

JSA counts as taxable income AFAIK also, so you may have to add it to your books! You might wanna check that elsewhere though.

The amount of profit I have made since June? Around £150. Bureaucracy, eh?