Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) to be extended until October. · petition

What the petition asks

I think the government should extend this scheme just like the furlough because thousands of people will still be out of work because of the Coronavirus and can’t return to work due to company policies limiting the amount of workers they can have because of social distancing e.g. construction sites.

I want the government to give the self employed an equal opportunity like the employed workers on the furlough because many of the self employed workers will still remain jobless and will be struggerling financially to pay bills, mortgages, rent and so on. Many of us have had a grant which is brilliant but if hundreds of thousands of us still remain out of work for the next few months which could possibly happen then how are we going to cope financially through this epidemic. I want the government to strongly consider extending this scheme.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Extend Self-Employment income support in alignment with the Job Retention scheme

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://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: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

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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

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