This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Bring self-employed support in line with the furlough scheme
Support for the self-employed needs to be brought to an equal level as employees. With self-employed workers spanning all industries being expected to shoulder the same burdens, often more, as employees, it is only right that they receive the same level of support.
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.
We understand that you want the Government to make changes to the Self-Employment Support Scheme, but it's not clear exactly what changes you want the Government to make.
We have published the following petitions, some of which you might like to sign:
Pay self employed workers a wage due to lack or earnings caused by COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303345
Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310471
Remove the £50k earnings limit for self-employed to access government funding: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310455
Coronavirus Support Package for Directors / Shareholders of small Limited Co's: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310515
Get HMRC to refund the Self-Employed their Jan 2020 1st Tax Payment on Account: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304995
Bring forward COVID-19 Self-employment grants to April 2020: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310898
Pay self-employed workers 80% of gross income during Covid-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309231
If you want the Government to make a change which is not covered by the above petitions, you could start a new petition stating clearly what change you want the Government to make.
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 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/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.