LCWRA when already in work

Hi @CC27810, A big welcome to the Community 😊.

I'm not a benefits expert but I do know that you are allowed to work when you are in receipt of LCWRA and can earn £411.00 per month, without it affecting your UC or LCWRA payments.

The type/nature of the work, and potentially the number of hours, should not of course be in contradiction of your health situation and reason for claiming LCWRA. I do not know what triggers an assessment of LCWRA but maybe others will know that and be able to advise better on that.

Any amount you earn above the £411.00 per month, is deducted by 0.55p per £1.00 earned, off your UC. So you keep 0.45p of every £1 earned (on top of the first £411.00 earned).

You have to report it each month, on your Journal, but I don't know exactly WHEN you have to report it (i.e. the last day of your Assessment Period maybe) but please check that and get certainty as the reporting of it correctly will be very important, and on the correct part of your Journal. Hopefully others will come along who know with more certainty on these points too.

I'm assuming 'earnings' means the amount before you pay any tax or NI contributions, if they are applicable to your situation. If you need to work out what your net pay will be salary calculator.co.uk is worth looking at and it calculates monthly/weekly net pay etc.

I only know the above from enquiring myself from the Citizen's Advice Bureau but more from a 'self-employed' perspective as I am housebound. I've no personal experience as I'm not well enough yet to even do that and got to figure out what that would be 🙄🫠) but I hope that the above gives you a bit of a start in being able to plan and work things out.

With very warmest wishes and good luck too in your job 🫂.

You're very welcome and that sounds a fab job!

Really very best wishes to you with it all 😊

Excuse me interjecting. If you log in to your UC Journal and go to Payments, that will show when your next UC payment/statement is due and will show the timescale of each individual Assessment Period that's set for you ie say, 21st June to 20th July.

If you are not on UC then I don't know as the above wouldn't apply ie if you're only on LCWRA and not UC. I hope that helps a bit.