As we head into 2021, we re fast approaching a full year where contractors and freelancers have effectively been left out in the cold.
The self-employed have been hit hard by the pandemic with recent research from the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) showing government support is not having much of an effect on the sector s fortunes.
They found the number of solo self-employed workers in the UK has fallen by five percent compared to last year.
Additionally, around 591,000 people became self-employed between 2019 and late 2020 and given the rules around SEISS, none of them would have been able to benefit from the support.
| UPDATED: 12:41, Mon, Dec 21, 2020
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SEISS is designed to provide grants to self-employed individuals who have had their business impacted by coronavirus. However, the rules on who qualifies can be confounding and around three million self-employed workers are unable to access any government support.