what gets deducted?

ohreally

agrinnall wrote: »

In fact you have no idea whether this is true or not,

An indication is given here

wilkies5 wrote: »

He was on JSA but that is no longer the case as they deducted what he earned in a week from his weekly allowance - reducing it to zero.

additionaly, from information provided, he earns below the NIC threshold from income received from all jobs.

agrinnall

ohreally wrote: »

An indication is given here

additionaly, from information provided, he earns below the NIC threshold from income received from all jobs.

Yes, the indication being that he earns from employment more than he would receive in JSA, so your argument that he is worse off working can't be proved, as we can deduce that he's earning somewhere between £72 and £98: I don't think it would need to be a great deal more than the bottom end to be better off overall through working.

And I think you misuderstand the NI Lower Earnings Limit (currently £109 per week), which applies to each job separately rather than a combination of all earnings, so as we know neither job pays more than £50 per week each is well below the LEL.