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Release covid-19 support for self employed with less than 1 year of trading

Submitted on Friday 27th March 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 15th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Release covid-19 support for self employed with less than 1 year of trading

Petition Details

I want Rishi Sunak to continue working on the Covid-19 support package to ensure that self employed workers trading less than 1 year are able to receive fair support.

Currently the support only covers employed workers and the self employed trading for over a year. This is not good enough.

Additional Information

It's unfair to punish those who have taken the plunge to go self employed within the last year by only offering them Universal Credits. The support also doesn't cover those on zero hour contracts, and grants won't be accessible until June which is too long for many people to wait.

I urge you to keep working on this support to ensure people don't slip through the net. Those who have been trading less than a year and who have been on zero hours contracts need equal support to survive.


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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.

Pay self employed workers a wage due to lack or earnings caused by COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303345

Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310471

Remove the £50k earnings limit for self-employed to access government funding: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310455

Coronavirus Support Package for Directors / Shareholders of small Limited Co's: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310515

Get HMRC to refund the Self-Employed their Jan 2020 1st Tax Payment on Account: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304995

Bring forward COVID-19 Self-employment grants to April 2020: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310898

You can find out about what Government support is available for people as a result of coronavirus (under the section on employment and financial support) here: www.gov.uk/coronavirus


You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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