Around 150,000 self-employed people will not be eligible for coronavirus income support because they have only worked for themselves since after the end of the 2018/2019 tax year, according to a study.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said 3% of all self-employed people in the UK have become continuously self-employed since April 2019, meaning 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.
Only those who have submitted a tax return for the tax year ending 2019 are eligible for government assistance. The ONS said by the end of last year there were more than five million self-employed people in the UK, up
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