Submitted on Friday 17th April 2020
Rejected on Monday 1st June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Government help for self employed not yet catered for during Covid-19 crisis.
Government to offer help packages & grants for self employed who have no premises, are not LTD company, are not VAT registered and/or haven’t been full time self employed for 3yrs or longer with urgency. We don’t have back up funds to rely on. We risk losing everything we’ve worked so hard to build.
Thousands of self employed workers are currently without any government support as they don’t meet the current criteria. We do not have money put aside or saved, we can’t afford to repay loans, and benefits will just not cover basic outgoings.
We stand to lose our businesses, our good credit ratings, and our homes.
Some of us are having to find finances to payed furloughed staff.
We need to be included in the packages set out by the government and this help needs to be fast tracked.
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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.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
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
Extend £10,000 small business grant to SMEs that do not have a property: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304161
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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