8 August 2023
Updated 'Business expenses you can report to Universal Credit if you are self-employed' to clarify you can claim for rent of a business premises, such as an office or warehouse.
21 June 2023
Updating Welsh HTML page to match recent updated to English.
20 June 2023
Updated information in the Reporting your business income section relating to the sale or transfer of business assets previously declared as self-employment. Removed information about personal withdrawals, as this information already in the expenses section.
16 June 2023
Guidance updated for information about claiming universal credit if you are self employed
31 May 2023
Updating Welsh to match changes to English HTML pages.
23 May 2023
New documents added containing information about how to report business income and expenses to Universal Credit if you are self-employed and which business expenses you can report.
14 January 2022
Removed the 'Claiming Universal Credit during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak' section from the 'How to report your earnings from self-employment' guide.
1 October 2021
Removed guidance about applying for the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme which ended on 30 September 2021. Corrected guidance on how Universal Credit calculates your payment which previously said that the minimum income floor only applied if your business had been running for more than 12 months.
1 August 2021
Updated both 'Universal Credit for the self-employed' and 'How to report your earnings from self-employment' guides. The rules for self-employed people claiming Universal Credit were temporarily changed because of the coronavirus pandemic. After 31 July 2021 the pre-pandemic rules will start to be applied again. This means that Universal Credit will check if you are gainfully self-employed. If so, your payment will be calculated using the Minimum Income Floor. And you may be eligible for a start-up period.
18 June 2020
New para 1.3 and updated Appendix 1 para 7.1, 7.2 and 7.5 to include what must and must not be reported due to receipt of any grants paid to support businesses affected by coronavirus.
7 May 2020
Added information about business assets not being taken into account when you make a Universal Credit claim.
9 April 2020
Added new guidance 'How a self-employed person reports their earnings for Universal Credit' during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
12 December 2018
Updated to show that Universal Credit is now available everywhere in Great Britain.
11 April 2016
Updated to reflect changes to Universal Credit from April 2016.
3 August 2015
Revised PDF published (version August 2015), updated to provide more information about self-employment for Universal Credit claimants.
5 June 2015
Revised PDF published (version June 2015), updated version provides clearer information about self-employment.
16 February 2015
Revised version with new information about the roll-out of Universal Credit.
23 June 2014
Updated to include the latest information about the expansion of Universal Credit
19 November 2013
Detail updated to include more information about the contents of the document.
28 March 2013
First published.