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Increase statutory sick pay during Corona virus to help the self employed.

Submitted on Friday 20th March 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Increase statutory sick pay during Corona virus to help the self employed.

Petition Details

Increase statutory sick pay during Coronavirus to help the 5 million self-employed people. Many self employed people have had there work cancelled due to Coronavirus and have no income causing them to struggle.

Additional Information

The government have helped many people financially but seem to have forgotten about the self employed, £94 a week is ridiculously low budget for anyone to live on.


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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 these petitions calling for the same action:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300336
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302277

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/coronavirus

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