Self – Employed Claims – Revenues and benefits – Legislation training – Training courses

Self – Employed Claims

This course is suitable for experienced assessors.

Duration: 1 day

Assessing income and capital for self-employed claimants is a very complex and often feared area of HB/CTB. This course is designed to enable benefits staff to deal with these claims accurately and with confidence. The course is supported by group discussion, practical exercises, comprehensive course notes and a quick guide desk aid.

Learning outcome

At the end of this course entrants will have a comprehensive understanding of how to extract income and capital from claimants’ accounting records; allowable and non-allowable expenditure; dealing with new applicants without accounts and notional VAT & NI.

Identifying the self-employed

Evidence of self-employed income

Certified accounts
Summary of Income statement
Verification framework

How we treat accounts

The assessment period
Business start-up allowance
National earnings
Partnerships

Allowable expenses

What is allowable and not allowable?
Apportioning shared expenses
Reasonable expenses
Drawings

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