I dont know who else this will effect but our amall business is unlikely to survive, and then its off to the dread ATOS for benefits as neither my partner or myself can go out to work! With the introduction of universal credit and it’s minimum income threshold of £200 lots of self employed will go under. DWP under UC will insist that if you are self employed, you are earning £200 a week and only pay you any benefits after the £200 disallowance. This means, on a slow sales month, lots of self employed people will not be able to claim housing benefit or working tax credit to pay the bills and they will be forced to close their self employed businesses. People may argue get a part time job, yes if you can find one, and its tricky to build up your own business whilst doing another job, you are supposed to be on duty to answer phone calls etc.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:03:46 +0000
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