Sunak to unveil financial aid for self-employed

The total number of people in the UK to die with Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, has reached 465.had no underlying health conditions, her family saidMore than 9,500 people have tested positive for the virus in the UK - although the actual number of cases is likely to be far higher.

Meanwhile the British Medical Association warned doctors and patients would die without adequate protective equipment across the NHS. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said millions of PPE items have been sent out and a hotline has been set up so staff can report shortages.Face-to-face supervision of thousands of criminals across England and Wales is being scaled back for at least three weeks to reduce the spread of the virus.

bbclaurak I'm only an administrator and my husband is a self employed electrician. If he cant work he cant get any money and he cant get universal credit because I earn! What I get a month doesnt even cover the direct debits. Let alone getting food

bbclaurak This lady has to be the worst interviewer in British history, clearly a Boris hater.

bbclaurak Please sort out why I am a non essential worker still working otherwise I will get diddly squat. Not self employed, but company doesn’t have money to pay us indefinitely.

Care workers working on the front line looking disabled and infirm patients all over the country have virtually no PPe and if they become ill will get just SSp. If a person is laid off they will get up to 2.5k per month how is this right? Care workers need more protection.

I think a lot of those self employed workers might regret all those 'cash in hand' jobs over the next few months!!

bbclaurak bbclaurak can you find out what the timeline is for the grants & 80% employed pay is? Still waiting on hmrc & local authority. Are we talking weeks/month? Businesses need to plan for cash flow. Tia

Mike_Fabricant It's not aid. It's a transfer of money from one person to another, money that was taken from citizens by the government under the threat of punishment. It's not benevolent, it's not free and it certainly isn't 'aid'. Describe things as they are, not in accordance with ideology.

bbclaurak Laura, why oh why did you not challenge the PM about this appalling confused message issued by Number 10?: We've told staff to stay at home (on full pay) based on the first announcement.

bbclaurak The British Government should be ashamed BorisJohnson rishisunak - CBILS is a long and clunky process, most small biz will not qualify & the biz that do are taking on massive debt which they have to pay back in a 0 sales envirnmnt. Most small biz will go bust in coming months.

BBCPolitics Never be as much as the EU put out for their SelfEmployedMatterToo Failure of a government! And you BBC are partially responsible for it.

BBCPolitics Total BS. The Working Tax Credit assessment and Income Support both managed to do just fine working off taxable income.

katesilverton Mmmm they've been saying that for the past two daysbelieveitwhenIseeit

We have to be careful here that the cure does not kill more people than the disease. The amount of spending already may lead to decades of poverty for many and there is no guarantee that this deadly virus can ever be eradicated (like colds and flu) due to mutations.

I’ve seen a lot of people moan because they can’t get UC as thry have more than 16k in sabpvings and are self- employed. People are literally dying.

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