Claiming carers allowence, working part time but make to sell at home how does it work?

mark25810

Hi there i hope someone can help and hope this is the right place to ask this as i did talk to citizens advice online but all they kept doing was giving lings to carers allowance info which did not answer my questions.

right now i work 25hr per week on minimum wage but also i am registered as a sole trader with the government because i make to sell on ebay. i do not make massive amounts, last year taking away the £1k traders allowance from my sales i ended up having to pay about £165 tax which i have put into my gov account ready to be taken come january.

so far from april this year upto now i have only made £700 but after charismas for a few month sales drop to not selling anything for week at a time so i may not even get to the £1k allowance this time so may not have tax to pay.

I am saying all this as my mum has fibromyalgia as well as other things and is on pip and she is needing more help where i will have to be a carer so i know come april next year people can earn upto £196 per week and still claim carers allowance so going by what minimum wage will be next april i could work 16 hrs and i am at 195.36 per week so should be ok…..

but i totally forgot i had to factor in being the sole trader and selling on ebay.

does anyone know how i would work out how much i would earn if i go over the carers working limit with a part time job but also the making to sell on ebay.

i tried but i have no idea how the government sees the money i earn off ebay as its not a weekly wage its just selling when i sell and not selling when i dont.

do i say over estimate what i would earn doing that in a year and divide it by 52 weeks giving me a estimate weekly amount i may make on ebay and then alter the part time hours to compensate so i do not go over?

I am really stupid with all this stuff and i did even ask on the gov website forum but it was like they had no idea when advisors replied to me.

i still want to make to sell crafts on ebay as its a hobby too

mark25810

forgot to say i know i will nodoubt take a hit in income so i need to work that out as well