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Government to pay self employed people for covid-19

Submitted on Saturday 14th March 2020

Rejected on Friday 20th March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Government to pay self employed people for covid-19

Petition Details

Most self employed people are the main provider for their family. If they have to self isolate then the household could suffer a loss of £2000 per month as a minimum. SSP is of no help to self employed people.

Additional Information

The government should pay the self employed people their full wage while they have to self isolate or their business self isolate based on their last tax return.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301793

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

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