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Thank you for your email to the Jobcentre Plus Contact Us website about the treatment of royalties under Jobseeker's Allowance rules.

I can confirm that fees and royalties for published items are treated as earnings, no matter how often or infrequently they are paid. You must therefore let your Jobcentre know about any payments you receive when you next attend a Jobsearch Review or an adviser interview.

Some of the earnings you receive will be disregarded. The amount of the disregard will depend on your circumstances, for example single claimants will have £5 of their earnings disregarded, whilst those with a partner have a £10 disregard. Earnings in excess of the disregard are taken into account against benefit entitlement. This means that for every £1 earned, £1 of JSA will be deducted.

I hope this is of assistance.

Samantha Tomlinson

JSA & UC Liaison Team

Working Age Benefits Integration Team

Operational Excellence Directorate

www.dwp.gov.uk

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—–Original Message—–

From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]

Sent: 27 June 2012 17:38

To: CONTACT-US

Subject: Royalties from book-writing

Hi,

I've written some Norwegian books now, as a hobby, since last automn, and it looks like I'm going to get at least a bit royalties, from Createspace, (Amazon), later this summer.

I seem to remember from filling out the Jobseers Allowance-fom, (JSA3, I think it was called), that royalties from book-writing, aren't supposed to be deducted, from the Jobseekers Allowance.

Isn't this right?

Is there a web-page on the internet where I can read more about this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Yours sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

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