If a self employed person has to close their business and have no income they are not entitled to unemployment benefit.
What is the reason for this?
If they can prove they have no income ar they sill not entitled to claim anything from the government?
It was probably political. Self employed are pretty much unrepresented.But why originally ws it set up that way, was the original rationale ?
But why originally ws it set up that way, was the original rationale ?
It was probably political. Self employed are pretty much unrepresented.
This would also account for the loss of PAYE tax credits.
Notice the way that the more represented get more. TDs being top of the heap.
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Even now I think there are a few disadvantages to self employment that a lot of people are not aware of and only discover when things start going wrong.
Compared to employed people on the same income you don't get Back to school Allowance, the higher rate of Child Benefit, the special rate of the Higher Education Grant scheme etc. etc.
But to exclude self employed on low income from social welfare payments like Back to school allowance is in my opinion mean.
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