This might be really long and hard to explain so forgive me...
I registered as self employed back in around 2016/2017. Received my UTR. I did one job and only earned £600 from this before finding out I was pregnant. I became quite ill with HG during the pregnancy and decided to actually not proceed with the self employment as I was finding I would be continually letting people down.
I went online and deregistered as self employed but stupidly never took a screenshot of that and even if I had, 4 years later I wouldn't know where that went.
Fast forward to 2018, I then ended up on UC due to relationship breakdown.
At the beginning of April this year I decided to take the leap back into it and restart. It's going really well and I will be earning a decent part-time wage every month going forward. I am still on UC.
I have declared this change to UC and have to attend a gateway appt at the end of the month to prove my self employment etc. The only issue I have is that I need to prove when I started with my UTR and I'm concerned that they will see that my UTR was actually started years ago because I cannot prove I never actually followed through with it all those years ago. I'm worried they will think I've been secretly earning and not declaring ever since that time which I categorically have not been doing.
I have been over and over my account online and cannot find a record or a trackable history of when it was opened and proof that I deregistered it shortly after. Can anyone advise how I can find that information. I rely on my top ups from UC at the moment.
I've been on hold to hmrc for over 45 mins on the phone (I'm going to have to hang up if they don't answer soon) in the hope an advisor could tell me but thought I'd post here in case there are any knowledgable folk on here.
Just trying to do everything by the book but it's proving to be stressful already.
Many thanks.