Universal credit- hours or money per month?!

[Catblack8]

Hello,

I am recently in a situation I didn’t hope to be in and need to claim universal credit. I’m self employed. 3 children aged 8-12 and part time self employed.

However I’m confused. Do I need to earn over the £677 or work the 25 hrs per week? For example if I worked 1 hour at week and charged £677 per hour (silly example I know) would they get off my back with appointments. Or do they expect you to work the 25 hours?

Hope that makes sense. Just wondering whether to up my prices or work more hours

It's more about the earnings rather than the hours, but the thresholds keep going up. UC can be tricky for self employed people.

Both.
if you earned £625 an hour and only worked 1 hour you wouldn't get UC. You cannot choose to work part time on a higher hourly wage just to keep UC. Most people on UC are on lower hourly rates so even working the 25 hours won't push you over the threshold but if it did you'd be expected to work the 25 hours and stop claiming UC. If you can't increase your hours in your job you'd be expected to look for a 2nd job.

Ah thankyou. Makes sense. Kept seeing conflicting things!