Self-employment Income Support Scheme

(asked on 14th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2020 to Question 45271 on Self-employment Income Support Scheme, what steps he has taken to review his policy on calculation of average self-employed earnings in the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme to take into account periods of maternity leave.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 20th July 2020

As announced on 17 June, the Government has amended the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) eligibility conditions to support self-employed new parents.

This means self-employed parents will be able to claim grants if they were taking time out of their trade to care for their new-born or newly adopted child and, as a result, did not submit a Self-Assessment tax return for 2018-19 or their trading profits in 2018-19 were less than their non-trading income.

Further details of the change for self-employed parents is available on GOV.UK.

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