PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Maternity Leave (24 June 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his Department on the implications for Government policy of the amount of support through the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme self employed women on maternity leave can claim.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

Answer

As announced on 17 June, the Government is amending 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 will be set out at the start of July in published guidance.


Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
29 June 2020

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