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housing benefit self employed and employed

If someone was part time employed and s/employed and making a big loss with the s/employed, can you put earnings down as 0?

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  • hippy-chicy
    hippy-chicy Posts: 535 Forumite
    No is the answer.

    Your earnings from your employment would be £x amount. If you S/E business was running at a loss then the income from this would be nil.

    For Housing Benefit you cannot offset a loss in your S/E business against your earnings from employment.
    :j
  • Deepmistrust
    Deepmistrust Posts: 1,205 Forumite
    novazombie wrote: »
    If someone was part time employed and s/employed and making a big loss with the s/employed, can you put earnings down as 0?

    Don't know but you can for tax purposes off set your loss against your PAYE, but Idon't know if the same applied for HB.
    All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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