Rejected petition Provide SEISS to self employed community NOW!!

Provide financial support to those claiming SEISS in the self employed sector in March.

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The self employment sector has been massively under funded and under supported during this pandemic. This petition will highlight the impact of this issue to the UK Government and how it has negatively affected the mental wellbeing of the self employment sector due to the financial strain of the further delay in the SEISS payments. 

This petition was rejected

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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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/577730

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

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