Petition · past parliament · HM Treasury

Provide a grant for newly self-employed as they have done in Northern Ireland.

Closed 122 signatures

What the petition asks

NSESS provides support to newly self-employed individuals who have been adversely impacted by COVID-19. As it stands at the moment this scheme is only available for residents of Northern Ireland. There are many other UK residents like myself, who this year have been neglected and it's unacceptable.
I'm 23 years old and I moved out of home in February before the pandemic started, I am in massive amounts of debt because I chose to stay home to help prevent the spread of infection and I know I am not alone in this. More needs to be done to help those workers who were not eligible for last year's grants. I went self-employed just before the tax year, that the data used to calculate what people were eligible for was taken from and it needs to be re-evaluated to help those in need.

Timeline

14 Jan 2021 Petition opened for signatures
14 Jul 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 122
Status Closed
Department HM Treasury
Opened 14 Jan 2021
Closed 14 Jul 2021

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