Self Employed, no set hours and Working Tax Credit. Help Please.

charlotte4940

Could someone have a look at this for me?

My partner is self employed and employed - employed 5hrs per week self-employed - 17hrs per week.

Obviously employed is through the employer and self employed he invoices. the company he works for pays him about £6.50 per hour. we have told tax credits that he is working 22 hours per week. could he still be asked to prove he is working even though he is invoicing? its a scary thought having to pay the money back as we have to pay for childcare costs!! (I work full time)

Icequeen99

charlotte4940 wrote: »

Could someone have a look at this for me?

My partner is self employed and employed - employed 5hrs per week self-employed - 17hrs per week.

Obviously employed is through the employer and self employed he invoices. the company he works for pays him about £6.50 per hour. we have told tax credits that he is working 22 hours per week. could he still be asked to prove he is working even though he is invoicing? its a scary thought having to pay the money back as we have to pay for childcare costs!! (I work full time)

His sounds like one of the easiest cases to prove. He just needs to show the invoices that show X hours x £6.50 an hour.

IQ

charlotte4940

Thanks for that Ice Queen

My partner was originally working for a very low wage through self employment but now is able to invoice at the NMW for 17hours per week. i was reallt worried that this might set alarm bells ringing even though he now earns just above the NMW.

shedboy94

S/E is one of the biggest scams currently on Tax Credits. The amount of people who claim to work exactly 16/24/30 hpw, yet never have an income to reflect it is unbelieveable.
You have tradesmen claiming to work 40hpw, yet earning a couple of thousand a year....now I'm sorry but there is no way a tradesman (builder/plummer/joiner etc) will do a 40hr week and earn £100 or less - some will charge that an hour!
It is childminders that I don't understand.......I have come across many childminders who claim WTC and their income is always declared very low - usually £5-10k pa, however these are the same childminders who apparently charge £200pw per child according to those who claim help towards childcare costs.
I know many childminders personally and they all look after several children and earn a hell of a lot of money. I also know many tradesmen and they are also earning lots of money, so I know that something is not right somewhere.

sarahg1969

I deal with quite a few taxi drivers. Many used to work 16 hours according to their accounts and most now do 24. But funnily enough when it comes to making a loss of earnings claim (I deal with insurance claims) they're all losing out on 80 hours a week while they're injured.