SEISS 4 and other income

Becles

A friend's business has suffered as most of her clients are in hospitality industry which has been closed. However she's been doing some temporary work in another industry on an ad-hoc basis which was paid as a self employed freelancer.

Can she still claim SEISS 4? Her main business will have significantly reduced profits and she will be dropping the temp work as soon as her main business picks up again.

Jeremy535897

It is a difficult question. If her freelance work had been a zero hours contract, there would be no issue. However, for SEISS purposes you aggregate your self employed businesses to arrive at "trading profits".

CKhalvashi

If remaining self-employed, this would factor into the calculations. As you state that she is a freelancer, I assume this is the case.

As above, if on an employment contract, it shouldn't factor.