It's in the white paper- you won't be allowed to declare very low earnings and receive the max amount of WTC, as people do now. Instead you will be treated as earning the min wage for the hours you declare, and your benefits reduced accordingly. If you declare fewer hours worked, you will be subject to the same conditionality as those on JSA (presumably workfare, weekly signing on, etc.)What the hell do we do now?! I was waiting for the dust to settle after the election/spending review/welfare reform white paper before I launched a home- based business, but now it looks like there's no point trying to help yourself because the govt will just come and take it all away from you. Obviously that's a worst case scenario- it's not law yet- but I'm wondering whether I should bother, under the circumstances. What are other self employed mums on WTC doing about this? Can we do anything? I will write to my MP (David Gauke who is something to do with the DWP luckily) but they may have made their minds up already.