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Help for self employed is coming?

terry.h
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edited 23 March 2020 at 11:03PM in Coronavirus Board
The help for self employed is possibly coming?
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0122/amend/coronavirus_daily_cwh_0320rev.14-18.html

(1)    
The Secretary of State must, by regulations, introduce a scheme of Statutory Self-Employment Pay.
 
(2)    
The scheme must make provision for payments to be made out of public funds to individuals who are 
(a)    
self-employed, or
(b)    
freelancers.

(3)    
The payments to be made in subsection (2) are to be set so that the net monthly earnings of an individual specified in subsection (2) do not fall below—
(i)    
80 per cent of their monthly net earnings, averaged over the last three years, or
(ii)   
£2,917
whichever is lower.

(4)    
No payment to be made under subsection (2) shall exceed £2,917 per month.

(5)    
A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

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