dla, esa (support) and working for self

I wonder if anyone can help point me in the right direction please.

Currently I get IS, Carers and DLA HRM and HRC and have been the carer of my DLA HRM and HRC son for last ten years. It has come to the point where I can no longer care for him (can't even care for myself) and he wants to try independant living anyway. I understand I would then be looking to change to ESA (hopefully support group) instead of IS and obv relinquish CA.

I believe I am right in saying on ESA support you can earn up to £93 per week for an indefinite period, but my disabilities preclude me from working outside the home so I would be looking to do some freelance work, from home, as and when I felt able to give a few hours here and there.

I am assuming I would have to start my own business, but don't know what restraints there are on starting one's own business under ESA support. The line of work does not clash with my need for DLA HRM and HRC, nor would it with ESA - theraputic if anything - so i would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction for information

Many thanks

nonsmoker2008 wrote:

I wonder if anyone can help point me in the right direction please.

Currently I get IS, Carers and DLA HRM and HRC and have been the carer of my DLA HRM and HRC son for last ten years. It has come to the point where I can no longer care for him (can't even care for myself) and he wants to try independant living anyway. I understand I would then be looking to change to ESA (hopefully support group) instead of IS and obv relinquish CA.

I believe I am right in saying on ESA support you can earn up to £93 per week for an indefinite period, but my disabilities preclude me from working outside the home so I would be looking to do some freelance work, from home, as and when I felt able to give a few hours here and there.

I am assuming I would have to start my own business, but don't know what restraints there are on starting one's own business under ESA support. The line of work does not clash with my need for DLA HRM and HRC, nor would it with ESA - theraputic if anything - so i would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction for information

Many thanks

IMO if you could earn £95 per week then rather than claim ESA claim orking tax credits that would get you on such a low income of about £5,000 ithout the bother of esa medicals

you would have to have to register and get your UIN reg and also tell NI payments you want not to pay NI due to low selfemployed income

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thank you for your responses.

i'm guessing that by bypassing ESA and going for working tax credits instead might leave me in a predicament regarding housing benefit and council tax and prescriptions/glasses/dental care in that i would no longer be passported to them fully though

nonsmoker2008 wrote:

thank you for your responses.

i'm guessing that by bypassing ESA and going for working tax credits instead might leave me in a predicament regarding housing benefit and council tax and prescriptions/glasses/dental care in that i would no longer be passported to them fully though

thats right you need to get advice and do whats best for you, thats said if you lose esa its a way of covering some lose

if you have very low income on tax credits... you would get a card giving all of the nhs benefits

It may be the case that you can indeed earn ninety-odd quid while on ESA - but seventy-odd quid might then be deducted from your housing benefit/council tax, assuming you're paying that much. In my experience, which I'll admit is out of date, sometimes you get told things out of context so you need to look at what effect any income will have on ALL the benefits you may be receiving, not just any one of them.

BB