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Claiming Universal Credit if you're self-employed - eligibility, reporting your earnings, start up periods

Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support

• Overview

  Get support from Jobcentre Plus to help you prepare for, find and stay in…

• Job search and training

  Your Jobcentre Plus work coach can give you information about training and…

• Work experience and trials

  Contact Jobcentre Plus to find out about opportunities that can improve…

• Starting or running your own business

  You can get help to: start your own business develop your business, if…

• Help for parents and carers

  Your Jobcentre Plus work coach can tell you about support you can get to…

• Help with drug and alcohol problems

  You may be able to get extra support if you have drug or alcohol problems…

• Support when you start working

  Going back to work does not mean giving up all your benefits. Some…

How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.

• When you have to deduct from pay

  You have to make deductions from your employee’s wages if a court orders…

• Getting an order

  You and your employee will each get an ‘attachment of earnings order’…

• Deductions for a priority order

  Priority orders are used for unpaid maintenance or fines. Calculate your…

• Deductions for a non-priority order

  Non-priority orders are used for debts from a county court judgment (CCJ).…

• What counts as earnings

  You can only make a deduction from the following earnings: wages, fees,…

• Making payments

  The order that you get for the employee will tell you whether you have to…

• Change of circumstances

  Write to the Centralised Attachment of Earning Payments (CAPS) office…

A statement of your earnings, including overtime, bonus or commission, for the last 3 months.

Apply for a Start-up visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, switch to this visa, bring your family.

Apply for indefinite leave to remain ('settlement') if you have a Scale-up Worker visa - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.

Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.

When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.

Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay

How to update your details online if the estimate of your income for the year is going to be more or less than expected.

• Updated: 16 January 2025