Changes to Council Tax support
Self-employed: minimum income floor
For claimants or partners who have self-employed income, a minimum income floor is applied 1 year after they started self-employment. This is the lowest weekly amount we expect people will earn.
We expect:
- lone parents to be working 20 hours a week, making their income-floor £250.96 per week after the first year
- single people and couples to be working 35 hours a week. If both people in a couple are self-employed, we expect they would each be working 35 hours. After the first year, the income-floor will be £392.04 per week.
The minimum income floor is not applied to disabled working claims, instead the actual amount of self-employed income will be used when calculating the household income.
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