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<p>The Understanding UC website provides information on UC and self-employment including
the treatment of business assets. The Department also provides regular updates to
self-employment groups, including the Federation of Small Business, with the ability
for stakeholders to ask questions about issues of concern and engages regularly with
the media to ensure information is disseminated.</p><p> </p><p>For claimants with
capital over £16,000 we contact the claimant to understand the composition of their
capital to determine eligibility. Part of that consideration would be whether the
declared capital included business assets which would be disregarded.</p>
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