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Sick pay for self-employed
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But because they are self employed they are supposed to make provision for periods of illness and the Minimum Income Floor may apply.Spoonie_Turtle said:Just to be clear for OP so they can tell their friend, UC is calculated on actual received income not designated salary. So if the husband is not bringing in any income whilst ill, it's very possible they may qualify unless they have savings over £16,000.
Whether an expected period of illness of six months would enable him to cease to be treated as gainfully self employed I don’t know.Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Some rules may be different in other parts of UK.0 -
If he is self-employed, it was my understanding the current rules give a start-up period of 12 months from the beginning of a new claim. Obviously they then can't have another for 5 years, but they'd hopefully not need another one once recovered and back at his current job.calcotti said:
But because they are self employed they are supposed to make provision for periods of illness and the Minimum Income Floor may apply.Spoonie_Turtle said:Just to be clear for OP so they can tell their friend, UC is calculated on actual received income not designated salary. So if the husband is not bringing in any income whilst ill, it's very possible they may qualify unless they have savings over £16,000.
Whether an expected period of illness of six months would enable him to cease to be treated as gainfully self employed I don’t know.0 -
Of course - I overlooked that.Spoonie_Turtle said:
If he is self-employed, it was my understanding the current rules give a start-up period of 12 months from the beginning of a new claim. Obviously they then can't have another for 5 years, but they'd hopefully not need another one once recovered and back at his current job.calcotti said:
But because they are self employed they are supposed to make provision for periods of illness and the Minimum Income Floor may apply.Spoonie_Turtle said:Just to be clear for OP so they can tell their friend, UC is calculated on actual received income not designated salary. So if the husband is not bringing in any income whilst ill, it's very possible they may qualify unless they have savings over £16,000.
Whether an expected period of illness of six months would enable him to cease to be treated as gainfully self employed I don’t know.Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Some rules may be different in other parts of UK.0
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