Did you know in the UK on limited capability to work you can become self employed without it being a risk to your benefits? No minimal floor?

[Kaneki05]

Just found this out which will help me sell product I've invested into, and has completely changed the game for me. Before I had to worry about my benefits getting deducted but thanks to the way it works I can make profit then use that as expenses to invest again and make myself a little bit more income.
As pip allows me to gain 400 more before they start reducing and I can easily do very short hours on my own time as I've being doing to do this.
Also it only becomes income if you don't use it for expenses in the month or if you take it for personal stuff. Which I will sometimes but the rest of time get more product to sell. Meaning no worry from the 12k allowance by Hmrc or reduced Uc.

[Apulu_backagain]

That's actually good. Would you say UK is expensive? Especially England and Scotland? You know like Bristol and Warwick and Edinburgh. I heard Durham had cheaper rates.

[Kaneki05]

Highly depends. I think England's cheap but that's cause I am on benefits meaning my rent for the flat I should be getting in a month will be paid for me and lower council Tax, so I never have to worry about it.
But if I was to work minimum wage all the sudden I'd have a £700-1000 rent add council tax so probably 100 something on top, which minimum wage only pays about 1800 a month after tax.
So half your work is going to rent.
If you can manage to live somewhere with lower rent then great but that I'd assume comes at the cost of living somewhere work is harder to find or gives you more travel cost. I live in a main city so rent is really high but a lot of UK rent has gone high compared to how it used to be.
The good thing besides rent and that tax I don't think anything is that expensive.

I can live on 400 from my benefits covering the little Council Tax I would get, food and bills just wouldn't have any spending money really, but then I get high rate pip on top giving me freedom of spending. So to me living is cheap.
But if I was working it'd feel bad after everything covered only less to spend each month that I get now since I'd imagine it would be around 400 to spend and high rate Pip is above that.

But if you think 400 or so to spend after all that is good, then it is. And this would be less if you decide a need for a car lucky in England there isn't much need in a car, but do keep travel costs in mind. For me it's another thing I don't need to worry about from not working and I get a free bus pass anyway though trains I do not so going to gigs cost a bit I won't lie lol

[Apulu_backagain]

Are there benefits for international students? I heard public transport is almost free for all students in Scotland.

[Kaneki05]

Have no idea on that one sorry, but I'm pretty sure Scotland is better for whatever reasons they have a lot more perks than England. And there will for sure be a student passes for bus whether that's free or much cheaper I don't know.
You won't be able to claim the benefits I am on, and it will most likely put you in debt as such things do.
So I wouldn't say it's cheap from that perspective as a major key to keeping things cheap is by not being in debt, but if you need education to work therefore have to go in debt that's the trap really.
It sucks but that is how that works typically.

[Apulu_backagain]

I see, thanks for clarifying!

[Kaneki05]

No problem would be more help if I could be.

[Apulu_backagain]

Yeah I would need your opinions on many things later on.

[Kaneki05]

Feel free to message me anytime

[LC75LC71]

I do know that in the US people can do that no matter what.

[Kaneki05]

That's intriguing so in US you can write things off as expenses and still receive assistance? Honestly I would be thinking they have more red tape and legal pits around it but perhaps not.
If not seems easy to become rich in US if you can just sell things and not take income to write off instead and get even more to sell.

[LC75LC71]

Not really, I've sold all kinds of shit online and reported none of it at tax time. I'm not a business or a company. Cash. COD.

[Kaneki05]

I think you are talking about selling small time stuff and personal, not what I am doing. They don't really care about that. But if you start to make a consistent income from it.

[LC75LC71]

Doesn't mess benefits here, just your wallet.