Reporting part-time earnings while on benefits

My hours change every week at my new part-time job and I am afraid of reporting wrongly. It has been a long 2 weeks. Pay posts on a different day from when I work. Do you report when you earned it or when you were paid?

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 10 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.