Chapter 44: Work and benefits
This chapter covers:
1. How work affects your benefits (
here)2. People treated as in full-time paid work (
here)3. People treated as not in full-time paid work (
here)4. Self-employed people (
here)5. Non-means-tested benefits (
here)
6. People involved in a trade dispute (
here)
This chapter explains how any paid work carried out by you, your partner or anyone living with you affects your entitlement to universal credit (UC), income support (IS), jobseeker’s allowance (JSA), employment and support allowance (ESA), housing benefit (HB) and pension credit (PC). See Chapter
7 for how your earnings affect the amount of your UC and Chapters
20 and
21 for how they affect the amount of your IS, income-based JSA, income-related ESA, HB and PC.