Treat ALL self employed people the SAME and give them eligibility for SEIS · petition

What the petition asks

Look at the fact we have UTR numbers which MEANS SELF EMPLOYED and give us the same access to the grant. Don’t discriminate those who once had a PAYE job, who are newly self employed or the multitude of other loopholes to not be allowed access to NEEDED help. Pay the 80% if income for the same years

Some of us took a PAYE job to support ourselves in the tax years being looked at for Self Employment Income Support. This means the percentages are not quite there to get the much needed help. Others are newly self employed and cannot be furloughed.

This is cruel discrimination arbitrary. Millions of us learnt we are not eligible on Monday and millions of us will not be able to survive or be forced to borrow money if we can. Please treat us all the same and give help to hard working SE

Why it was rejected

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

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: Pay self employed workers a wage due to lack of earnings caused by COVID-19.

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

Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns: Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns

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

Coronavirus Support Package for Directors / Shareholders of small Limited Co's: Coronavirus Support Package for Directors / Shareholders of small Limited Co's.

Get HMRC to refund the Self-Employed their Jan 2020 1st Tax Payment on Account: Get HMRC to refund the Self-Employed their Jan 2020 1st Tax Payment on Account

Bring forward COVID-19 Self-employment grants to April 2020: Bring forward COVID-19 Self-employment grants to April 2020

Pay self-employed workers 80% of gross income during Covid-19: Pay self-employed workers 80% of gross income during Covid-19

For self employed new mums to not be discriminated against in the 80% gov help: For self employed new mums to not be discriminated against in the 80% gov help

Blanket payment for the self-employed similar to the AU and US stimulus payment: Blanket payment for the self-employed similar to the AU and US stimulus payment

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.

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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: https://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: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

7 May 2020	Petition opened for signatures
1 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee