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Being forced into self-employment...
rorysdad
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Hi all
Voluntarily left a job after 4 years with a new job where the boss offered me more money. It is a sales job.
After 6 weeks (I got paid for the first month) new boss says that I am not selling enough and therefore he won't pay me the amount I started on - which was enough to live on and support myself and my partner and two kids.
I have been forced to agree a new arrangement where unless I sell £1500 worth of goods each week I won't get paid - and even if I hit £1500 (which I have not as yet) I will only get £250/week - so I will certainly have weeks where I will have no income.
I need a job. The alternative is the dole - although I am a council tenant and so rent and council tax would be covered.
Whilst I am working we will get tax credits - which top up the wages - but I really cannot have weeks where I earn nothing as I pay the rent weekly.
Am I better off going self employed? If I do, will we (me, partner and 2 kids aged 7 and 14 years) still get tax credits? If I go self-employed then my income on day 1 will be zero - will tax credits accept this?
Anyone got any other ideas? What would our income be if I was on dole (partner does not work - she is carer for our disabled son - she gets carers and he gets DLA)
This is proving a nightmare - having given up a decent paid job on PAYE which I had for 4 years!!
Rorysdad
Voluntarily left a job after 4 years with a new job where the boss offered me more money. It is a sales job.
After 6 weeks (I got paid for the first month) new boss says that I am not selling enough and therefore he won't pay me the amount I started on - which was enough to live on and support myself and my partner and two kids.
I have been forced to agree a new arrangement where unless I sell £1500 worth of goods each week I won't get paid - and even if I hit £1500 (which I have not as yet) I will only get £250/week - so I will certainly have weeks where I will have no income.
I need a job. The alternative is the dole - although I am a council tenant and so rent and council tax would be covered.
Whilst I am working we will get tax credits - which top up the wages - but I really cannot have weeks where I earn nothing as I pay the rent weekly.
Am I better off going self employed? If I do, will we (me, partner and 2 kids aged 7 and 14 years) still get tax credits? If I go self-employed then my income on day 1 will be zero - will tax credits accept this?
Anyone got any other ideas? What would our income be if I was on dole (partner does not work - she is carer for our disabled son - she gets carers and he gets DLA)
This is proving a nightmare - having given up a decent paid job on PAYE which I had for 4 years!!
Rorysdad
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