Start-up businesses and seasonal workers could be 'crushed' by Universal Credit system

Entrepreneurs who fail to meet a “minimum income” from their business after a year could be forced to pack up and find work elsewhere under the benefit rules, according to the Work and Pensions Committee.

Meanwhile, seasonal workers or others without steady incomes could be hit to the tune of thousands of pounds because of the way their benefits are calculated, the MPs said in a new report.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/work/employment-regulations/news/95045/start-businesses-could-be-crushed-universal-credit

also here as well as it effects farmers as well

https://www.welfareweekly.com/universal-credit-designed-with-little-regard-for-the-reality-of-self-employment-say-mps/

Universal credit is punishing entrepreneurs and seasonal workers, say MPs
https://www.ecnmy.org/engage/universal-credit-punishing-entrepreneurs-seasonal-workers-say-mps/

Universal credit rules risk 'crushing' self-employed and startups
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/10/universal-credit-rules-risk-crushing-self-employed-and-startups

Universal credit reforms risk 'crushing' hopes of self-employed people, warn MPs
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-credit-self-employed-dwp-work-pensions-benefits-mp-business-owners-a8341556.html

BAD CREDIT Universal Credit is punishing the self-employed and risks ‘crushing’ entrepreneurs and start-ups, MPs warn
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6253590/universal-credit-is-punishing-the-self-employed-and-risks-crushing-entrepreneurs-and-start-ups-mps-warn/

jobberpw wrote:they will let you keep a whopping 37p in the £ a bloody joke, a system all about plenty of stick and zero carot.

Yes, they will "let" us keep some of money and credit that they created out of thin air.