Hiya all,
i feel like ive been on here so much asking for advice lately !
right here goes, il try to keep it simple. im a single parent signing on with one child and am desperate to go back to work. ive recently come across a job as a home care assistant and have been invited to interview.
The only thing is they said im only likely to get around 8 hours a week due to the fact i cannot do evening and weekends. I realise that i cannot sign off on this amount of hours as i need to be working 16 hours to get WTC.
so i was thinking that i could go self employed to make up the rest of the weekly hours. I have a mum at my daughters school who asked me before to go some housework, babysitting and ironing for her but couldnt afford to pay much and wanted me to do it cash in hand kind of thing. obviously i didnt do it as im signing on and last thing i need is being caught for benefit fraud ! but now im thinking i could tie both jobs in together - i could do my 8 hours with the agency and do the other 8 hours a week for the mum at the school.
is this possible?
also she was only offering to pay me around £40 a week which is £5 per hour so below minimum wage, but would that matter as id be self employed doing it?
i really need some advice regarding this.
thanks all
laura millward
i feel like ive been on here so much asking for advice lately !
right here goes, il try to keep it simple. im a single parent signing on with one child and am desperate to go back to work. ive recently come across a job as a home care assistant and have been invited to interview.
The only thing is they said im only likely to get around 8 hours a week due to the fact i cannot do evening and weekends. I realise that i cannot sign off on this amount of hours as i need to be working 16 hours to get WTC.
so i was thinking that i could go self employed to make up the rest of the weekly hours. I have a mum at my daughters school who asked me before to go some housework, babysitting and ironing for her but couldnt afford to pay much and wanted me to do it cash in hand kind of thing. obviously i didnt do it as im signing on and last thing i need is being caught for benefit fraud ! but now im thinking i could tie both jobs in together - i could do my 8 hours with the agency and do the other 8 hours a week for the mum at the school.
is this possible?
also she was only offering to pay me around £40 a week which is £5 per hour so below minimum wage, but would that matter as id be self employed doing it?
i really need some advice regarding this.
thanks all
laura millward