UC Review

[anon1411]

Hi,

Me and my partner have just had a message to say we are due a UC review. We have sent in the documents and bank statements. However we realised that over a period of 2 and a half months we sold some things on Ebay and Vinted, this was purely to declutter before Christmas, however a few of these things were expensive that we just didnt use anymore and wanted to get rid of. Will this be counted as 'regular' income? I know we will get questioned on it and thats fine as we have nothing to hide but with it only being over a short period of time does that still count as income.

Just curious to see your experiences with this and to prepare myself incase we have to pay anything back. Thanks

Selling your own possessions a few times on eBay I don't think would class as regular income. Though it probably depends on the volume of sales and the amount of money you earned from it. But if you're still under 6k I think it should be fine. They'll find out so you may as well tell them.

I think under 1k of selling isn't counted...

Yeah 100% will tell them. What was sold was something to do with my partners hobby that he no longer is interested in, hence why it was expensive as he got rid of the whole lot but other than that it was just random bits we wanted to get rid of!

Selling your own stuff that you no longer want or need is fine. it is not classed as an earned income. DWP only care if the money you got from selling has pushed your capital over £6k. If not, then don't worry about it.

Ignore the previous comment about there being a £1000 limit. There is not. HMRC are not interested in you selling your own second hand stuff. Only if you are buying with the intention to sell it.
No one has ever informed HMRC when they sold their second hand car, and they don't need to.

Selling your own stuff is fine except so far as it might take capital over £6/16k so generate tariff income or put you over the eligibility limit.

Acquiring stuff and selling it on for profit is likely to be seen as income though as above there may be disregards where the amounts are irregular/nugatory.