How old are the children?
They work on a sliding scale, for me, my daughter is 5 and they expect.me to be working 25 hours a week.
But for the interim it'll basically work like this:
They'll award you amounts in regard to being a single person, £317 I think it is. Then a housing element, 100% of rent if in a housing association house, 80% if private renting. (I think it's 80% but not totally sure) then they'll award a set amount as child element, dependant on age and number of children. They'll total all that up and then take off what you earn, they won't minus 100% of what you earn tho, it'll be around 80-90% I believe though. Then they'll pay you the remainder.
They'll pay this in one monthly payment.
BUT all that doesn't matter, I'm going to tell you what does, as not many people know about this.
They assign you a period of time for 'Assessment' mine runs from 8th of one month to 8th of the next.
If you're working and you get paid monthly in your assessment period, that's good.
If, however, you're paid 4 weekly, you might end up with 2 payments in your assessment period.. if you do.. they will end your clinic automatically and you'll have to reclaim.
If you're paid weekly, any month with 5 weeks in, they'll end your claim automatically and you'll have to re claim.
So be prepared for that as it might catch you out.
Also, childcare, should you need it, you will have to pay it yourself up front for the first month and then claim it back from UC the next month after submitting invoices and receipts to them.
Be prepared for the first 5 weeks with no money and the following month with less than they should pay as frequently the first payment is lower than it should be.
It should all be detialed in the Gov.Uk website but a lot of details are harder to find.