Sunday Working.

[10ClarionSt]

I know this was in the news weeks ago but I think there is more to it than just increased trading on Sundays. I would suggest that this is the first step to bringing Sundays into the Employment Benefits System. At the moment, claimants can earn any amount on Sundays without it affecting their benefits. This will disappear when Sunday is classed as a working day. I think IDS and Gorgeous George will be looking seriously at that.

[EDDIE51]

The only thing I can think of that you may be getting confused is that you do not have to be 'Looking for work' on a Sunday if you are claiming JSA.
But to say you can earn money on a Sunday and not declare it is ridiculous .
I realize people do do it and get away with it, but it must be 'cash in hand' or the tax and NI would need to be paid as well. Your football ref is on very dangerous ground as the names of the ref are published in the press for every match even local ones. He is risking a conviction for benefit fraud!
Hope a disgruntled player does not find out he is committing a fraud and drop him in it out of spite!!

[wolf63]

It was true at one point that Sunday earnings did not get taken into account. I 'think' that it was when Supplementary Benefit was the benefit being paid. If so that would have been before 1988.

Can't find anything to support this distant memory on the internet.

[EDDIE51]

Income disregards here £5 a week for most people £20 a week for registered disabled but NO disregard for Sunday
http://www.convery.org.uk/website/pubs/hb99/html/ch09.htm
You can earn the £5 any day Sundays are just like any other day as far as benefit is concerned. You need to tell a few of the people who think they can work on a Sunday and still claim benefit they are risking a jail sentence for benefit fraud !

[THECORBYLOON]

It used to be the case that folk on Unemployment Benefit (UB) COULD work on a Sunday without it affecting their benefit because the benefit week ran from a Monday to a Saturday. Various benefits were classed as weekly benefits or daily benefits that were paid weekly. Some benefits were classed as a seven-day benefit or a six-day benefit.

Some benefits are classed as overlapping, meaning you cannot get the full amount of both and for any period that overlaps and one benefit is reduced by a proportion of the days involved. Don't want to make it any more complicated but years ago, some benefits were reduced by 1/7 or 1/6 for each day of the overlap depending on the other benefit involved.

Legislation was changed bit by bit (I can't mind on whether Jobseeker's Allowance was a six or seven-day benefit when it was introduced) so that all the benefits are now seven-day benefits and that closed the loophole of folk being able to work and earn anything on a Sunday without affecting their UB or JSA.