Rejected petition Increase statutory sick pay during Corona virus to help the self employed.

Increase statutory sick pay during Coronavirus to help the 5 million self-employed people. Many self employed people have had there work cancelled due to Coronavirus and have no income causing them to struggle.

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The government have helped many people financially but seem to have forgotten about the self employed, £94 a week is ridiculously low budget for anyone to live on.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300336
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302277

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

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

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Date submitted 20 March 2020
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