Every document for your self-employed interview – with the result it is in.
Every document with its result.
Start for freeYou bring the rest yourself.
Legal basis: Universal Credit Regulations 2013, regs. 62–64 · Universal Credit start-up period: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), gov.uk, as of 09.11.2026.
Five steps – and the one report you must not delay.
Online on gov.uk – your work coach at Jobcentre Plus is your contact.
Online, with a work coach.
Offer, customers and expected profit – showing that your business is organised and expected to make a profit.
Concept and numbers.
Tell Universal Credit as soon as you start. At the interview your work coach checks whether you are gainfully self-employed.
Report it, then the interview.
No job search and no minimum income floor – Universal Credit uses your actual monthly earnings.
Actual earnings count.
Universal Credit then assumes at least minimum-wage earnings for your expected hours. Plan your profit for that.
Plan for the income floor.
Report your business income and expenses to Universal Credit every month – even in a month without any. Separately, you register for Self Assessment with HMRC.
Each document takes over what you entered before.
What you offer, to whom, and why you can do it.
Plus a one-page short profile.
Start nowThe plan with all numbers – about 30 pages, every number calculated.
Plus the financial plan as Excel with eight sheets.
Plan bank-readyWhich programmes fit, in which order, by when.
Every programme with source and check date.
Start nowConcept and numbers stay in your account. Founding and first customers build on them.
Everything stays in your account.
Supported by start-up experts and partners
The concept first. The numbers and the funding when you’re ready.
Start for free Concept free · Business plan £39 one-off