I need £1k per year in savings

cheekychco

Was doing a search on here myself for extra income to pay of my hideous loan (while still complaining to FOS)

anyway someone mentioned about remote typists and I'm going to apply. If you have good typing skills, might be worth a try. The site mentioned here was Uk Transcription. Here is the link directly to the job part of it. Hope it helps and good luck.

http://www.uktranscription.com/jobs.html

Victoriajayne

If you haven't already done so, go through this board 'Up your Income' and look at the things you can do to earn a little cash rather than trying to make savings.

Just one example is Pinecone Research - you may be able to get 3 online surveys a month to do - which is £9 paid into a paypal account or sent out as luncheon vouchers. Yeah, it's only a few quid, but it's £9 towards your monthly savings target. Plus you can do them online at a time of day that suits you.

There are many small things you can do at a time to suit you - they don't bring in much, but it all adds up :-)

And as I mentioned, use your IT skills. Have a look at the link above (can't remember the poster's name, sorry)... there's IT support work you can do from home if you have a suitable internet connection and telephone line.

aurongrande_2

cheekychco wrote: »

Was doing a search on here myself for extra income to pay of my hideous loan (while still complaining to FOS)

anyway someone mentioned about remote typists and I'm going to apply. If you have good typing skills, might be worth a try. The site mentioned here was Uk Transcription. Here is the link directly to the job part of it. Hope it helps and good luck.

http://www.uktranscription.com/jobs.html

that looks interesting, but sadly, I cannot type very fast any more. I use to be able to write about 100 words per minute, but since I was in a traffic accident a year and half ago which injured my right shoulder, my typing speed is down to about 40 words a minute.

If I can find any suitable braces for wrists, elbows and shoulders, then I might be able to get the word count up.

Cheers anyway.

davester

Where abroad you want to work, and what qualifications are you seeking to attain so that you can find work abroad?

zzzLazyDaisy

aurongrande wrote: »

I currently have 3 forms of income. Incapacity, DLA and delivering papers. Incapacity brings in just over £100 a week, DLA is low rate on both Care and Mobility, and paper round brings in about £200 a month.

There are some inaccuracies in your posts....

The highest rate of incapacity benefit is £91.40 a week (not 'just over £100 a week')

Also under the permitted work rule you can earn up to £93 a week on top of your IB for a maximum of 52 weeks. However you must check with job centre plus that the type of work that you want to do is permitted under the rules. This involves having a meeting with a personal adviser at job centre plus, who then notifies IB of your start date. In one of your posts you say that DWP do not class income from a paper round as earnings; this is not correct.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/IncapacityBenefit/DG_10020667

Ib then notify DLA who review your DLA for any inconsistencies in the type of work you are doing compared to the needs you are claiming for. I would have thought that doing a paper-round is likely to raise a flag.

I suspect from what you say that you have not gone through the appropriate procedures for doing permitted work?

aurongrande_2

davester wrote: »

Where abroad you want to work, and what qualifications are you seeking to attain so that you can find work abroad?

I want to teach English in Japan. However, I need a minimum Bachelor Degree in Japanese studies.

I need to go to college and do an Access to Higher Education course to allow me into Uni, and then it's the Japanese Studies course.

Here is the course that I'm hoping to get onto;
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/prospectus/courseDetails.do?id=4055362011

I may skip the third year and study from home or something, because by that time, I won't be able to afford to get there by that time. I'll have to sort something out with the tutors.

Even if I don't make it to Japan, I might be able to get a job translating Japanese in one form or another.

aurongrande_2

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

There are some inaccuracies in your posts....

The highest rate of incapacity benefit is £91.40 a week (not 'just over £100 a week')

Also under the permitted work rule you can earn up to £93 a week on top of your IB for a maximum of 52 weeks. However you must check with job centre plus that the type of work that you want to do is permitted under the rules. This involves having a meeting with a personal adviser at job centre plus, who then notifies IB of your start date. In one of your posts you say that DWP do not class income from a paper round as earnings; this is not correct.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/IncapacityBenefit/DG_10020667

Ib then notify DLA who review your DLA for any inconsistencies in the type of work you are doing compared to the needs you are claiming for. I would have thought that doing a paper-round is likely to raise a flag.

I suspect from what you say that you have not gone through the appropriate procedures for doing permitted work?

Nope, no inaccuracies. Looking at my bank statement, I get £212.80 a fortnight. I am earning £93 a week from the papers (not even close).

When I went into the JC to let them know that I'm doing the papers, they gave me a number to call. So, using JC public phones, I rang the number and the person at the other end asked me about the job, and then sent me a small form in the post. I returned the form, detailing the job.

Because the papers don't paper much, and takes no more than an hour a day, they haven't bothered to check up on me in those regards, despite the fact that I keep letting them know that I'm still doing the papers at every opportunity.

Whenever I go for my IB medical check-up, I let them know that I'm doing the papers, and even the tribunal knows that I deliver papers, yet still gave me DLA.

With all this said, everything is by the book in regards to the JC, DWP, HMR etc.

zzzLazyDaisy

I am in receipt of IB and DLA. I do permitted work and I know the rules and procedures - not only from my own personal experience, but from my experience of helping others to negotiate the maze of rules that relate to IB/DLA.

You, on the other hand, clearly do not understand the rules, and are not familiar with the procedures. Which suggest to me that you either have not properly complied with the requirements ... or that this thread is a wind-up.

I tend towards the latter, and for that reason - I'm out

lalli_pickle

In terms of teaching English in Japan, have you looked at the EFL/TEFL qualification. Is it necessary for you to spend 3 years studying for a degree? If it were me I'd be looking for the quickest way possible to get myself back up and earning.
Also if you could get yourself out ot Japan on a job through TEFL you would probably pick up more Japanese than you would in a classroom.

aurongrande_2

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

I am in receipt of IB and DLA. I do permitted work and I know the rules and procedures - not only from my own personal experience, but from my experience of helping others to negotiate the maze of rules that relate to IB/DLA.

You, on the other hand, clearly do not understand the rules, and are not familiar with the procedures. Which suggest to me that you either have not properly complied with the requirements ... or that this thread is a wind-up.

I tend towards the latter, and for that reason - I'm out

Which person were you referring too??