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Self-employed new parents are entitled to SEISS

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The self-employed income support scheme (SEISS) has been extended to self-employed new parents who took time out to have children.

3rd Jul 2020
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The government confirmed this month that self-employed new parents are entitled to the SEISS grant if their trading profits sank in 2018/19 due to a pause in their career to care for newborns within the first 12 months of birth.  

Self-employed parents will have to meet the eligibility criteria under the SEISS, where claimants would have to have traded in 2018/19 with profits making up at least half their income.

The parental SEISS grant also includes parents who have adopted during this period and so didn’t trade for a period within the first 12 months of adoption.

To prove their eligibility for the grant, parents have the choice to use either their 2017-18 or both their 2016-17 and 2017-18 self-assessment returns

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