Petition · past parliament

Excruciating pains for those moved from PAYE to self employed recently (2019/20)

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Thanks to the government for their response to the outbreak. The 2 schemes provided to support income earners this unfortunate period did not consider people like me who have been working and paying tax since but just moved from PAYE to self employed in the year 2019. It is no fault of ours.
To consider the agony of families of income earners who recently moved from directly employed (PAYE) to self employed before the unfortunate outbreak of Covid19 and the lockdown. I have never been on social benefit until now and has been working and paying my tax all through these years. Unfortunately, non of the 2 support schemes provided by the government cover people in the same situation like mine and we are really going through hell right now.

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 some of these petitions:

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

One-off Grant To Be Paid To Anyone Who Has Not Benefited From A Covid-19 Scheme: One-off Grant To Be Paid To Anyone Who Has Not Benefited From A Covid-19 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 find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

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

20 Jun 2020 Petition opened for signatures
10 Jul 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 10 Jul 2020

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