Rejected petition Make insurers recognise COVID-19 and cover clients for loss of earnings

Self employed childminders across the nation have insurance that covers their loss of earnings in the case of infectious diseases, however due to COVID-19 being new it is not an infection that is included in this cover.

Please sign now so that parents have a childminder to come back to!

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Nobody knows how long this pandemic will last and what its effects will be, but if small businesses are forced to close without any income due to self isolation or closure of schools, businesses will fail and there will be a great decline in childcare options.

In a country where parents struggle to work and pay for childcare, and providers struggle to earn a living even when the country is running normally, this will be disastrous.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The terms under which insurance policies will pay out are a matter for individual insurance companies.

You could start a petition calling on the Government to create a fund to reimburse people that experience lost income due to the coronavirus outbreak and are unable to claim these under their insurance policies.

We have also published a petition calling on the Government to pay self-employed for self-isolating due to coronavirus, which you might be interested in: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301793

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 14 March 2020
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