Hi, my name is emmy21! Question about setting up my own business

emmy21
emmy21 Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
edited May 2021 in Work
Hi everyone I am new here and looking for some advise on going back to work, but I'm so unsure as to what I need to do.

I would like to set up my own business, as I am not good socially around people or in a workplace, because of my special needs disability.

I have receive high disability and PIP for my learning difficulty, I feel I need to try and live a more structured life, I feel very trapped at the moment.

Would it affect my PIP and ESA if I became self employed and registered the business with HMRC, even if it doesn't make any money straight away?

I feel I need to try to build up and do something with my life, so I thought build a business from home, as I never seem to last long in a job ?

Thank you in advance for your support.

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  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,168 Championing
    Hi @emmy21 - & welcome to the online community. If you worked, it wouldn't affect your PIP, however with ESA you can work so long as it's no more than 16 hours a week, & you don't earn more than £143 a week. See: https://www.gov.uk/employment-support-allowance/working-while-you-claim
    With self employment, you don't have to register with the HMRC unless you earned £1000 from self employment between 6 April 2020 & 5 April 2021, which won't apply. Some info here: https://www.gov.uk/set-up-sole-trader
    I hope some of this helps. :)
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Hi and welcome goad your query has been answered 

    What sort of business were you thinking of setting up 
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Hello @emmy21 and welcome to the community. 

    I'm glad to see that you've been provided some information above, I hope it has been helpful.

    What sort of business would you set up?
  • emmy21
    emmy21 Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
    Hi everyone wow thanks for this amazing advise, @Ross_Scope @janer1967 @chiarieds so my thoughts are an anxiety coach working with people who relate to me, that I can help and support women mainly as I work better with women. I just feel I have a lot of life traumas and had to deal with my own disability I want to try to help others 
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Listener
    edited June 2021
    The job centre and the tax man is based inside the same building. If you need help on how to fill out a Self Assessment as a self employed person, the staff in the job centre can teach you how to do it. They can give you a Government Gateway account which is used to login to the HMRC dashboard.
  • emmy21
    emmy21 Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
    @innocent21 thanks for the advise I am looking into it all now I have had some advise ?
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,168 Championing
    The job centre and the tax man is based inside the same building

    I don't think so @innocent21 -  The Job centre is administered by the DWP, which is totally separate from HMRC.

    @emmy21 - that's a great ambition, & I wish you every success in helping others. :)



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