Hi all, I wrote a book last year and it was picked up by a publisher and was published in February of this year 2014 and has been doing pretty well, it is available worldwide. I run a Facebook page which went crazy popular and it has now got over 100,000 likes. It currently has about 125,000 likes. I was approached by a publisher to write a book on the subject of Wicca which I did. I have been on benefits since being made redundant last March 2013. When my book was published I had a case worker who I saw regularly to help me get back into work and I asked her about the book and what I need to do and she said I shouldn't worry it is more a case of paying tax on it at the end of the year as long as my savings or earnings don't go past £6000. Well the book hasn't made £6000 yet I get a monthly payment from the publishers for royalties of the sales and e-book sales, it started out as about £600 but has now whittled down to about £200 a month for the physical book and the e-book versions. . I am also on a work program called A4E which everyone knows about the book I even took a signed copy in for one of the advisers as she was interested in Wicca. I have always been totally open about the book with both the dole and A4E. I often told the person signing me on I had a book and they would say 'Oh good for you I will look it up' and nothing more said. I had a customer compliance interview with the benefits office and they asked to see my bank statements and other relevant information regarding the book which I showed them. The man interviewing me said they would regard the book as capital and didn't even take a photocopy of my bank statements just made a quick note of my earnings from the book. Today when i went to sign there was a garbled letter in the book that said I must fill in a B7 form which is for people who are working part time and to declare any hours worked or pay. The man seemed confused and went to ask the person who put the letter in my signing book, which he says he 'thinks' that is what i need to do, then they couldn't work out what is was i needed to do so they sent me to another woman who then says I need to fill out a B16 for self employment and they have made an appointment for me for Monday. I don't really want to sign or say I am working part time as i am not I am still available for work and am not working for any company, neither do I want to sign that I am self Employed as I am not I do not own a company or work for one I have owned. No one seems to know including myself what is to be done in these circumstances. I have always been told that my book is capital and it can make up to at least £3000 before it affects my benefit. Can anyone help please??

Advice desperately needed as on Friday my husbands employer has stated that he is no longer going to pay him the rate he has been paid for the past year and is dropping it down to just 50.00 per day . He works as a part time garage door fitter and has a contract with his employer to work two days a week . He started 4 years ago and has had pay rises since then and the pay for the last year has been 80,00 per day. The rest of the week my husband was employed on on a self employed basis and would submit an invoice for any repairs and extra fitting that be may be booked for on other days of the week . but since the recession he was not getting enough self employed work to cover our bills so last year he set up as a maintenance man and has slowly but surly increased his customer base . Since he was getting such a low rate just 10.00 pounds for a repair that could be take two hours and as he uses his own vehicle and tools the repairs were just not economically viable as he was losing work from his maintenance customers. So last week he told his employer that he could no longer do the repairs based on the 10.00 per repair . Yesterday his employer stated that as my husband was not prepared to do the repairs , please remember this is the self employed part of the week and many weeks there was no repairs to do!, he is only going to pay him 50.00 per day for the two days he is employed for instead of 80.00 that he has been getting for the last year. Tax and NI have been paid by his employer based on the 80.00 so basically I'm asking can he do this?