PLEASE HELP!! Self Employment and JSA

Mistic

jobbingmusician wrote: »

I have actually received JSA whilst being SE. (I worked as a mystery shopper). I had to fill in a form each sign day saying how much work I had done, and what actual profit I had made. This is one of the advantages of SE, you get your expenses incurred to do the work deducted before they work out how much to take off your JSA.

Hi everyone

I realise this is a bit of a late reply but the thread is extremely relevant for me at this moment. I have been searching for answers.

I have recently applied to JSA and was told I will be declaring the income in a way that sounded like what you did. I may have an opportunity to do a significant amount of MS work soon and am trying my best to find out how it will affect the JSA payments.

I have 3 questions

1
I know I have to declare the profit I make each week over the 2 weeks per sign day, but were I to squeeze all the MS work into one week would that affect the payment from the second week? As in, would the average income from the 2 weeks be used or is each week calculated seperately?

2
Is the payment each sign day made in arrears? Assuming it is, is it calculated on the sign in day or deducted from the next week or how does that work?

3. I read on this forum that on contribution based JSA, which I will be on, you can earn to £160 pound before JSA payment is then affected, assuming that is not a continual thing. I have not read that anywhere else though, is that correct? Is there a guideline for that somewhere I have not found?

Thank you in advance