Rejected petition Support the self employed workers in the UK that need help due to coronavirus

Self employed workers will suffer as a result of the coronavirus, just as much as workers in employment on PAYE. The government should make payments based on the previous years submitted tax returns.
This would reduced the loss and suffering and provide equal help to the self employed workers.

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Self employed workers have children and family’s to support, mortgages or rent to pay for and everything else that employees have to pay for. Direct or indirect effects of coronavirus will reduce earnings and cause severe hardship to family’s and the current measures of approximately £94 per week will not help. We still pay tax and we are still valuable members of the economy. We deserve more help to in order to survive and provide for our families

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Since you started your petition the Government has announced support for self-employed individuals: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-gives-support-to-millions-of-self-employed-individuals

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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