the local police officers stopped a trad window cleaner....asked him was he insured and told him he wasnt aloud to clean above 2 metre on a ladder....
poor guy had to go down and sign of the dole because he thought he was being watched...
i would enjoy it if they stopped me while i was working of a ladder ..so i could teach them the law maybe teach them something...
he should not be working and claiming dole money anyway. he is robbing us the tax payer. poor guy i dont think so. 
It is possible, in certain circumstances, to work and to claim some dole money. Perfectly legal too. I did it for a short while when I first started and I was straight with them about it. Five things must be in place for this to be approved.
1) The total income on a given week must be less than a certain amount.
2) You cannot claim and earn on the same day (job seeker's allowance is based over six days).
3) You must state that you would give up the window cleaning if you were offered a job.
4) You must be seeking employment in the normal ways on the days when you don't work.
5) You must have the relevant type of NI contributions paid in ther qualifying period.
I qualified because I met all those criteria.
I started from zero turnover so it took a few weeks before I was earning enough to sign off (bear in mind that the running expenses are deducted from the turnover to get the income). I did all that work on one day each week- therefore qualifying for five sixths of the weekly payment. I would have stopped window cleaning if I had been offered a job (the fact that I later changed my mind was irrelevant because the question refers to the here and now). I was seeking work when I had no window cleaning. I did have the relevant NI contributions because I had been an employee for many years up to that point.
I did actually save the taxpayer a lot of money because after 6 months on the dole, I would have qualified for £x per week (can't recall the exact amount) under some business start-up allowance scheme that was going then.