I heard you can only earn so much then whatever you earn gets deducted from your income support.
2007-08-17 06:06:42 · 2 answers · asked by Ed 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Personal Finance
Maximum £15 per week! However, you have to, by law, declare all work you do whether paid or unpaid. The rules are not confined to cash payment. For example, if you work two days at a farm and the farmer pays you with a sack of potatoes, then you work in a butcher shop for a day and the butcher gives you a large joint of Silverside Beef and then you work a day in a Newsagents and get paid £10. By Law, you have to declare all of that weeks work and everything you have received. Now for the catch! The DSS will calculate the value of that sack of potatoes (£10) plus the value of the beef (£15) plus the £10 cash that you received. They will state that you have actually earned £35 that week and at that level, you will have £20 deducted from your income support. Housing benefit will also want a cut of your earnings as well. I believe they take 50p for every £1 earned over a certain figure (I think it's £30) and then take £1 off your housing benefit for every £1 you earn over £60
2007-08-17 06:22:20 · answer #1 · answered by kendavi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your honesty does you credit, but If it is only only a small amount, pocket it and keep quiet.
They are wasting £billions bringing so called democracy to barbarians and then claw back the odd £ a youngster earns by hard work.
2007-08-17 07:13:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋