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13 years 11 months ago #68691 by slugsta
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I am currently employed until 20th October. My EAS claim will start from the next day. At the moment I earn a bit of pin money doing on-line surveys, it works out at something between £15 and £50 per month for an input of around 1 hour a day on average.
I have seen so much in the papers about 'benefits cheats' and I am terrified of ending up in court. Is it likely that the stuff I do would count as 'work', or even count against my WCA? This bit of money will really come in handy to provide the occasaional treat, but I will stop dong it if there is any suggestion that might be in my best interests to do so.
I have seen so much in the papers about 'benefits cheats' and I am terrified of ending up in court. Is it likely that the stuff I do would count as 'work', or even count against my WCA? This bit of money will really come in handy to provide the occasaional treat, but I will stop dong it if there is any suggestion that might be in my best interests to do so.
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13 years 11 months ago #68698 by Gordon
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Mrs Hurtyback wrote:
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This may well come under the heading of Permitted Work, however, you need to inform the DWP of what you are doing, as only a DWP Decision Maker can confirm this.I am currently employed until 20th October. My EAS claim will start from the next day. At the moment I earn a bit of pin money doing on-line surveys, it works out at something between £15 and £50 per month for an input of around 1 hour a day on average.
I have seen so much in the papers about 'benefits cheats' and I am terrified of ending up in court. Is it likely that the stuff I do would count as 'work', or even count against my WCA? This bit of money will really come in handy to provide the occasaional treat, but I will stop dong it if there is any suggestion that might be in my best interests to do so.
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13 years 11 months ago #68699 by DRAGON2009
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if your claim is on mental health grounds, then I suggest you see an advice worker to see if they think that continuing with this permitted work might jeopardise your claim, it would be a shame to hartm your claim for such a small amount of earnings
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13 years 11 months ago #68704 by slugsta
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Replied by slugsta on topic Re:Would this be classed as work?
No, my claim is on physical health grounds. TBH, I don't want to even put the thought into the decision maker's mind if I don't have to!
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