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Government support for self-employed dentists during COVID-19

Submitted on Tuesday 14th April 2020

Rejected on Monday 1st June 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Government support for self-employed dentists during COVID-19

Petition Details

Think again about the impact of leaving over 75% of self-employed dentists out in the cold, as they are deemed ineligible for Government support.

Dentists which are an essential core working group in our healthcare system are forgotten and need help right now too during this difficult time!

Additional Information

Self-employed dentists, deserve to be treated in a comparable way to those who work PAYE. Regardless of how people choose to work and earn a living, we all deserve support in these unprecedented times.


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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.

Dentists are not excluded from accessing the Self-Employment Support Scheme, although the scheme is only accessible to workers whose trading profits are less than £50,000.

We have published a petition calling for the Government to remove the £50k earnings limit for self-employed to access government funding, which you might like to sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310455

If you want the Governemnt to make a different change to this scheme, you could start a new petition stating exactly what change you want the Government to make.

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

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

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 can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

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: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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