Bring Forward The Fourth COVID-19 Self Employment Grant!

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Making self employed people wait 3 months for their grants is too long. This could see lots of small, family run businesses go under. People on PAYE furlough don't have to wait so why should the self employed?

During this crisis, we are seeing people struggle to make ends meet, put food on the table and make their regular financial payments. It's the Government's duty to ensure that self employed people should not have to wait another 2 months without financial support. The Fourth SEISS payments is already late, we can't wait another 6 weeks. It would leave self employed people that are eligible for the SEISS grants 12 weeks or more without any income if things do not change!

Why it was rejected

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

Bring the fourth SEISS grant payment forward to March

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/

Timeline

3 Mar 2021	Petition opened for signatures
10 Mar 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 10 Mar 2021

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