CCM6740 - Particular Aspects: Work & Hours - Self-employed Claimants

If the CCRO passes you a claim from a self-employed person to examine, remember that you will not be examining the amount of the income reported. All self-employed claimants will be required to make SA returns and the income they report for NTC must be the same as that they return for SA. Because some claimants will be newly self-employed, or newly set up on SA, they may not have made any SA returns by the time they made the claim you are examining. In these cases, claimants will estimate their income for the year and, as for all other claimants, will confirm the final figure once they know their actual income for that year. But even if the claimant has used an estimate you will not be examining the amount of their income.

Any enquiry into the income of self-employed claimants will be carried out under SA, and the SA section will notify NTC of any increase which will need be taken into account in re-calculating the relevant NTC award.

Although you should not examine the amount of the income the claimant has reported, you can consider whether:

• they are in fact engaged in remunerative work; and
• they do work the number of hours stated.