Germanshepherdsmum
Did qualify for a payment during lockdown? Perhaps not if you weren’t on furlough or running a business, Neither did I. But we’ve had help with the cost of living haven’t we?
In order to qualify for the self employed handouts during covid you had to have traded during 2018/19 and have submitted a tax return for that year before 23 April 2020; to have traded during 2019/20 and intended to continue trading in 2020/21.
The first covid cases in the UK were recorded in January 2020.
As happens every year, some people decide to give up employment in order to become self employed. There are thousands of people who decided to start a new business on or after 6 April 2019. These people did not qualify for any of the SEISS grants. They were not Mystic Megs and could not know that several months down the line there would be a pandemic; they should not have left their employments and they should not have started a new business.
There is at least one person on here who did not qualify for this help. No doubt she will also be commenting.