Self employed and worried about where you stand with the new lockdown?

You have to have been previously eligible for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme first and second grant (although you  do not have to have claimed the previous grants)

You must also plan to continue to trade and either:

• • currently actively trading but are impacted by reduced demand due to coronavirus
  • were previously trading but are temporarily unable to do so due to coronavirus

To be eligible you have to have had a trading profit of less than £50,000 in 2018-19, or an average trading profit of less than £50,000 from 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19.

Those people who were newly self-employed, contractors and freelancers will not be eligible, you can still apply for Universal Credit to gain some support.