Petition · past parliament

Reduce the threshold for the self employed grant to include this tax year

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The new self employed support grant is very good and covers 95% of those who are self employed. However it does not cover those that have only been self employed for this tax year 2019-2020 who have paid tax.

Please help the other 5% of self employed people. Universal credit is not enough!
Reduce the threshold to income those that dont have tax returns from previous years. Look at the UTR numbers and CIS numbers! Invoices or bank statements!

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records

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Timeline

26 Mar 2020 Petition opened for signatures
3 Apr 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 3 Apr 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.