Bring in self employed pay for those who don’t qualify under you new scheme · petition

What the petition asks

Provide a comprehensive package for self employed people and businesses that don’t pay business rates, are in their first 3 years of trading with no profits to date and those that are not eligible for any of your business grants.
Universal credit is not comparable to the packages given to others.

Recognise those of us that have put everything we have into setting up our businesses by compensating us in line with all other workers, regardless of employed, self employed or zero hours contacts.
You forcibly close our businesses which takes away our only form of income. We also have families and bills that need to be paid.
You have provided a safety net for all, except those mentioned above.
You promised not to leave anyone out- now be true to your word and help the forgotten.

Why it was rejected

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

Remove the 50% earnings barrier so all self employed workers to receive support.

Remove the £50k earnings limit for self-employed to access government funding

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

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https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here:
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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 and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

Timeline

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