Latest editorial
Thousands of self-employed may not be eligible for government support, ONS figures suggest
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (left) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak clapping outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London
TENS of thousands of self-employed people are not eligible for the government’s coronavirus support scheme, official figures showed today.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that around 150,000 self-employed people in the country have only worked for themselves since the end of the 2018/19 tax year.
This means they may not be eligible for the government’s self-employment income support scheme because they would miss the threshold to prove their past income to receive wage subsidies.
Similar stories
Any positives from the government’s green paper proposals are vastly overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households, argues JENNY RATHBONE MS
