Supermarket till charity

Guy sitting at supermarket door today waved a coffee cup today and asked for ‘spare’ change, I offered him a days work cash in hand but he refused, so I suggested he go elsewhere to beg in case someone-me- called the law, I usually ignore him and any others but just thought today I’ll look for a reaction.
To be fair the State payment system makes doing one days work really not worth the trouble. I have posted before about how peoples payments are just stopped until the DWP have sorted things out. This is often weeks and sometimes even months.
 
Cash in hand, it's a non-issue. Is he likely to declare income from begging?
 
Not days but months, in fact maybe years, lost track of how long he’s been a regular at the doors, not too skint to be smoking and using a mobile phone, and be in a local bar after 8pm.
 
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