Have seen these threads every now and then on the active page and been curious.
I’m housebound agoraphobic BUT I do have a brain and qualifications I’d like to be using and it would be nice to have some extra money coming in.
Problem is, I’m currently on legacy disability benefits and not wanting to trigger myself onto UC until absolutely necessary. Just been made to do PiP claim from being on DLA I’m still in the first 6 weeks waiting period for that and been told they’re backlogged anyway.
So I’m very reluctant to “Rock the boat”
I’m actually wanting long term to work remotely to a level of full time earnings but there’s a lot to organise yet so that’s long term goal.
Short term as I’m on Esa in theory I can do “permitted work” but I don’t know if any of this stuff you guys are doing would be classed as ok for that.
Hoping it is as eg Appen looks right up my street! And one thing I DO have plenty of is time to do things online!
Any other esa or others on legacy benefits doing this? Have you had any problems with dwp as a result?
Don’t want to sabotage myself as I NEED that money to live on obviously.
Quite honestly even an extra £50 a month would be great.
I have a degree in English, experience in admin (inc some technical and legal areas), retail, bookkeeping, medical and hospitality.
Where I’m stuck, in addition to being housebound, is lack of tech, only currently have my iPhone and fire tablet. (Long term aim is to purchase, possibly with help from grants, a laptop, software and peripheral equipment to be able to do more involved remote admin and similar work possibly even tefl remotely)
But it would be great to make a start with this type of work.