Universal credit and term time working

Happyshoes

Hi all,
I am hoping someone will know the answer, but I have tried lots of searching but not found anything.
I work in a school, and term time only, and I earning £17450 per year (split as 12 equal payments). I am a single parent currently get housing benefit and CTC. I have tried various benefit calculators which say I'd get approx £20/mth more on UC and that would also save the need to take payslips etc to the council. However I don't know how UC works for term time work. As my wage works out more than the minimum would I be expected to spend school holidays job searching?
I could visit my local CAB but not until the Easter holidays so wondered if anyone here knew the answer? Any advice welcome, many thanks.

Happyshoes

Sorry for terrible grammar, autocorrect!

huckster

Universal Credit takes into account earnings when the data is received from HMRC. So, if the employers are reporting earnings every month, then the UC payments will take them into account during the UC assessment period they are reported.

So it is when the earnings are reported by the employers and not when you are actually working that is relevant.

If you are earning £17,450 per year, then you will be in the working enough group, so there would not be a Job Centre work search requirements.

Happyshoes

Thank you for the reply Huckster, appreciate it. That sounds hopeful as further benefit calculators suggest from April I could be over £100 a month better off by switching to UC so I definitely need to make the change, but I was just scared if the job search requirements would come into play.