Setting Up Your Own Company and Benefits, Is It Possible?

Xenji

A family member has been offered work with a state body, basically he cannot be be taken on as a full time employee due to the moratorium but has been offered 2 days a week if he sets up his own company and can invoice them for the 2 days work he has done.

Now our Social Welfare office has been closed the last few weeks so he has had no help there, but does anyone know if he could do this and still keep his payment, like being on the x's and o's?

eastbono

Xenji wrote: »

A family member has been offered work with a state body, basically he cannot be be taken on as a full time employee due to the moratorium but has been offered 2 days a week if he sets up his own company and can invoice them for the 2 days work he has done.

Now our Social Welfare office has been closed the last few weeks so he has had no help there, but does anyone know if he could do this and still keep his payment, like being on the x's and o's?

I find it very hard to believe that your swo has been closed for the last few weeks. Anyway what payment are they on? Is it jsa or jsb. If its jsb then they can do x and o even if its s/emp. With jsa their means will have to be reviewed by a swi for s/emp. The wont be able to do x and o on jsa if s/emp.

Xenji

eastbono wrote: »

I find it very hard to believe that your swo has been closed for the last few weeks. Anyway what payment are they on? Is it jsa or jsb. If its jsb then they can do x and o even if its s/emp. With jsa their means will have to be reviewed by a swi for s/emp. The wont be able to do x and o on jsa if s/emp.

They have been amalgamating all the offices and moving them into a new Intreo building, so he was told to come back when it was open, they have not had signing days since the middle of January either and not starting again till next week, it is still open but with a skeleton staff who could not assist him when he asked about the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance.

Anyway he is on JSA and can get two days work a week, the people he would be working for cannot pay him directly, he would have to invoice them for the two days and to do that he needs to set up his own company for tax reasons.

eastbono

Ok...he has two options so then. He can apply for btwea or he can continue on jsa and be means assessed for s/emp. With btwea he cannot start up straight away he will have to fill out the form...do up a business plan and meet a case officer. With the other option his current payment should and I say should continue as it is until new means are assessed..this could vary office to office and his means would be reviewed for s/emp. With btwea he retains his current payment for 12 months and then it is reduced if i remember correctly to 75% of current rate for next 12 months..

Xenji

eastbono wrote: »

Ok...he has two options so then. He can apply for btwea or he can continue on jsa and be means assessed for s/emp. With btwea he cannot start up straight away he will have to fill out the form...do up a business plan and meet a case officer. With the other option his current payment should and I say should continue as it is until new means are assessed..this could vary office to office and his means would be reviewed for s/emp. With btwea he retains his current payment for 12 months and then it is reduced if i remember correctly to 75% of current rate for next 12 months..

The second option sounds simpler, this will not be a long term arrangement for him and it will probably last until the end of the year. With the second option would he just have to inform the welfare of taking up the position and then let them sort out the details, he would not need the likes of a business plan?

eastbono

Exactly he wouldnt need a business plan but he would have to see a social welfare inspector and produce projected income figures from s/emp which seems straightforward enough with his 2 day per week. Yes he would have to notify his local swo. The only advantage of btwea is that he will retain his current rate of payment along with any earnings he will have from s/emp. If this s/emp dries up he can revert to jsa and at the moment under current procedures he would still have more than 12 months of btwea to avail of again.

Xenji

eastbono wrote: »

Exactly he wouldnt need a business plan but he would have to see a social welfare inspector and produce projected income figures from s/emp which seems straightforward enough with his 2 day per week. Yes he would have to notify his local swo. The only advantage of btwea is that he will retain his current rate of payment along with any earnings he will have from s/emp. If this s/emp dries up he can revert to jsa and at the moment under current procedures he would still have more than 12 months of btwea to avail of again.

Cheers, thanks for the help.