Some self-employed workers will fall through the net, while others say they need the help sooner.
Terry Litherland, who supports his wife and three kids, says he won't get any help under the chancellor's plan
“I went down this path because I thought, if I go self-employed I can get a regular income and I don’t have to worry about redundancy again. I feel like I tried to do everything the right way. I funded it all myself. Now I’m thinking why did I bother?” “We will get something, but we won’t get anything near what we would have expected to get [without the shutdown],” she says.
“I think [the government] has done the best they can in the time they’ve had,” she says. “It’s a good package for the people who it is going to help, but not for the people who don’t get it.”Roderick Zuskar works as a handyman in Macclesfield. He earned around £18,000 last year painting people’s houses, mending fences and other odd jobs so he will be able to access the chancellor’s support package.
Having spent the last week trying and failing to get through to utility companies, the bank and the supermarkets on the phone, he’s worried that the process to access the new finance package, or Universal Credit to tide him over, will be just as difficult.
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