Universal Credit keep asking me to input my incoming and outgoings?

textbook

I keep getting requests from dwp to fill in my incoming and outgoings for universal credit payments but I get nothing because I've been earning too much on paye job £1600 net a month pkus my self employment income which is what i input.  Been in this job since Dec 2024.  I got my last payment back in Feb or March when I was coming to tyexend of my transistional protection.  

It's now Aug 2025 and haven't received any money for months, shall I stop bothering you enter my ingoings and outgoings?  Just ignore the requests?

NedS

As long as your claim remains open, you will be required to report your earnings so they can calculate whether or not you are entitled to anything. If you are confident that you are earning enough and/or not entitled to anything, you can ask for your claim to be closed.

If you fail to declare your earnings, they will repeatedly message you for around a month reminding you, and then eventually just close your claim for failure to provide evidence of earnings.

textbook

NedS said:

As long as your claim remains open, you will be required to report your earnings so they can calculate whether or not you are entitled to anything. If you are confident that you are earning enough and/or not entitled to anything, you can ask for your claim to be closed.

If you fail to declare your earnings, they will repeatedly message you for around a month reminding you, and then eventually just close your claim for failure to provide evidence of earnings.

It's been months now of just inputting ingoings and outgoings and I earn too much so been getting nothing for months.  Shall I carry on, may lose my paye job and be just self employed shall I carry on circus it easy enough to just open a new account in the future?

rosewalk

You may find that your claim will automatically close after 6 months of zero payment but this seems to be a bit hit and miss at the moment. 

NedS

rosewalk said:

You may find that your claim will automatically close after 6 months of zero payment but this seems to be a bit hit and miss at the moment. 

Claims only automatically close where the award has been nilled by PAYE earned income for 6 consecutive APs, and even then there are some circumstances that will prevent auto-closure (e.g, declared a health condition that limits your ability to work but there is no WCA outcome yet - commonly happens when people return to work, stop submitting fit notes and do not update their health status as fit to work on their claim).

I'm not sure if being gainfully self employed prevents auto-closure.

NedS

textbook said:

NedS said:

As long as your claim remains open, you will be required to report your earnings so they can calculate whether or not you are entitled to anything. If you are confident that you are earning enough and/or not entitled to anything, you can ask for your claim to be closed.

If you fail to declare your earnings, they will repeatedly message you for around a month reminding you, and then eventually just close your claim for failure to provide evidence of earnings.

It's been months now of just inputting ingoings and outgoings and I earn too much so been getting nothing for months.  Shall I carry on, may lose my paye job and be just self employed shall I carry on circus it easy enough to just open a new account in the future?

That's totally up to you.

peteuk

Have you had your set up period of self employment?  If you have if you loose your PAYE role, and go full time self employed the minimum floor may apply.  You may not be in a better position.