self-employed wot benefits/smi

Hammyman

no-oneknowsme wrote: »

Maybe finding another 15 hours per week isnt possible at the minute for one reason or another , i did however suggest finding even one more hour as then they would qualify for tax credits . One hour shouldnt be that hard to find.

Chances are that as a self employed person, they're doing more hours than they think as they tend not to count things like walking to the post box to post a business letter but which is actually work.

I once kept a record for a week and was astonished to find I was doing over 60hrs.

Indie_Kid

rene2b wrote: »

ok im sorry but if a refugee comes to england and get a house THEY will get help paying for there mortage???
thats a joke :mad:

How many people do you know just come to this country and can get a mortgage like that with no income?

Oldernotwiser

sh1305 wrote: »

How many people do you know just come to this country and can get a mortgage like that with no income?

Never let common sense get in the way of bigotry!

no-oneknowsme

Hammyman wrote: »

Chances are that as a self employed person, they're doing more hours than they think as they tend not to count things like walking to the post box to post a business letter but which is actually work.

I once kept a record for a week and was astonished to find I was doing over 60hrs.

Totally agree Hammyman , infact you will probably remember the thread which was running just a few weeks ago where the poster was panicing as they had been claiming the 30hr element on tax credits and then HMRC enquired into how many hours they had actually been working....

On that thread we all chimed in and gave the poster advice on how all the little things they do for their business counts towards their actual working hours.

Thats where i was heading when i suggested they rethink how many hours their "friend" is actually working per week but then the OP made this remark:

ok im sorry but if a refugee comes to england and get a house THEY will get help paying for there mortage???
thats a joke :mad:

And i decided not to bother offering them any more advice!

rene2b

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no-oneknowsme

rene2b wrote: »

sorry if ive affended anyone but see it from her point of view
her husband n herself have paid ni for yrs and now they need alittle help they cant get any
and befor anyones says anything im half asian!!and work so does my husband

Well , we have told them what they need to do then....they need to find some more hours to work to quailfy for tax credits!

The self employed person needs to sit down and count up how many hours they actually do stuff which relates to their business.

They need to factor everything into the calculation eg time spent doing the books , time on the phone ordering supplies , time spent doing advertising etc....theres probably lots of things that would bump their working hours up

Apart from that theres not much more we can advise because one things for sure , the government (quite rightly) are not going to pay the mortgage of people who choose not to work.

Sixer

rene2b wrote: »

sorry if ive affended anyone but see it from her point of view
her husband n herself have paid ni for yrs and now they need alittle help they cant get any
and befor anyones says anything im half asian!!and work so does my husband

Rene - you are probably confusing immigrant with refugee and/or asylum seeker. Immigrants are people who come to Britain because they want to, for whatever reason, usually economic. They cannot come to the UK and immediately claim umpteen benefits that British people cannot.

Refugees and asylum seekers are people who have been forced to leave their homes and country due to various reasons such as religious or political persecution. There are very strict rules about who qualifies for this status. Some can claim some benefits (or else they'd starve as they are not allowed to work) - but even then they usually get less money than the equivalent British household would and they do not get preferential treatment in housing queues.

If you had a misunderstanding over the terms, I see why you were shocked. Hopefully now you'll see why you got such a negative reaction!