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03.03.2021 / 22:40
Martin Lewis followers 'sick with worry' as he discovers finer Budget 2021 detail
direct to your inboxMoney Saving Expert Martin Lewis has been looking into the finer details of the 2021 Budget, after Rishi Sunak announced it earlier today.As part of the budget, the Chancellor announced that 600,000 self-employed people will be able to claim for a support grant - which they were unable to do before.On changes to the self-employed scheme, the Chancellor said: "When the scheme was launched, the newly self-employed couldn’t qualify because they hadn’t all filed a 2019/20 tax return."But as the tax return deadline has now passed, I can announce today that, provided they filed a tax return by midnight last night, over 600,000 more people, many of whom only became self-employed last year, can now claim the fourth and fifth
