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.

We understand that you are concerned about the lack of support for some self-employed workers, but it's not clear how you want the Government to change current support.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

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

Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318435

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

Pay self-employed workers 80% of gross income during Covid-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309231

For self employed new mums to not be discriminated against in the 80% gov help: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310461

Blanket payment for the self-employed similar to the AU and US stimulus payment: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318666

If you want the Government to make a change which is not covered by any of the above petitions, you could start a new petition stating clearly 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/