If you're self-employed, paid work means any work you do for payment (or would expect to be paid) or profit.

To claim Working Tax Credit, you should expect your paid work to continue for at least four weeks.

How to work out your usual weekly working hours

You'll need to put the number of hours you usually work in a week on you tax credits claim form. You only count hours for which you are paid - don't include unpaid lunch hours.
If you're an employee

Give the total number of hours you usually work and are paid for in a week for all jobs that you do. If you normally work overtime, include this.

If your hours vary from week to week, put down what you and your employer(s) think of as your normal number of paid hours.
If you're self-employed

Put down the number of hours you normally spend working in your business, either on work billed to the client or related activity, for example:

trips to wholesalers and retailers
visits to potential clients
time spent on advertising
cleaning the business premises
cleaning a vehicle used as part of the business, for example a taxi
book-keeping
research work

If you work from home, include time spent travelling to see customers.

If you have only just become self-employed, use the number of hours you normally expect to work in a week.
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Re. the government's new Tax Credit changes, how will it affect single working people working over 30 hrs pwk? Will there be any significant changes there, or will these be confined to just couples with kids earning over a certain amount per year?