Can I keep my Universal Credit payment and work with Onestaff?

Start up period :

If you start a business while you are claiming Universal Credit, the minimum income floor will not apply to you for the first 12 months.

This start up period gives you a chance to grow your business. In the start up period, your Universal Credit payment is calculated based on your actual earnings even if they are lower than your minimum income floor.

You get a 12 month start up period for the first 12 months of your Universal Credit claim if you started your business less than one year before you started your claim. You can only have one start up period for each business and you can only have one start up period in every five years.

Proof of self-employed earnings :

If you are self employed, you will have to supply monthly 'cash-in and cash-out' figures to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

If you fail to supply these figures between seven days before and 14 days after each month, your Universal Credit payment will be suspended.

As you can see, you can keep your universal credit and also work with us during a 12 month period.

Updated on: 28/02/2024