Submitted on Saturday 30th December 2023
Rejected on Thursday 4th January 2024
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Make Universal Credit Fair for Self Employed Workers
Universal Credit minimum income floor is calculated on 52wks. The Self Employed deserve the same considerations as the employed, 8 bank holidays, 28 days holiday. Self Employed by its very nature in order to not identify as IR35 should not come as a regular monthly pay so why is UC punishing them.
Calculate MIF on a realistic working year like the employed (inc. holiday & B/H). Allow the self employed to pay the govenment minimum into a pension (currently 8% of earnings) before considering their income. Allow the business to have a float of 40% of the previous 3 years earnings to ensure that when the MIF is not reached, the money can be taken from the float to reach the MIF. When income arrives allow that money to be replaced upto that threshold of 40% before deductions in UC are made.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you are concerned about how Universal Credit works for self-employed people, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. In particular, it's not clear how you want the Minimum Income Floor to be changed.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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