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"I'm devastated, there is no support for me"
Terry Litherland, who supports his wife and Three Children , says he will not qualify to get any assistance received Under the Registrar-schedule
, the Registrar of The plan to support the self-employed through The Crisis , a cautious welcome from some of the series, to unemployment benefit, but others have found it, you will feel.
the self-employed can claim up to € 2,500 Per month, but Only If you for at least a year and have a trading income of less than £50,000 Those who do not look qualified that The Money Until June .
"I'm devastated," says Terry Litherland electricians in Blackpool.
"I saw [the Chancellor's announcement] with bated breath," he says of The Bbc . "My Wife has a little angry. "
"We are A Family of Five - Three small Children , and He Said that there is no support for us. "
Terry was dismissed, after Ten Years of working for RBS. Instead of claiming that benefit, he used his redundancy money to tide him before you in the Last Year as a self-employed electrician.
'I've done everything right“I know, cash-in-hand, Everything Goes directly in The Bank . I have all The Evidence you would need for what I deserve," he says. But, because he is only trading for eight months, he can't get no more support.
“I went this way because I thought if I was on my own, I can be a regular source of income and I don't have to worry about the redundancy again. I feel like I tried to do everything The Right way. I have financed everything myself. Now I think, why do I bother?"
He is online now, for all the work he can find, in the construction or in the delivery, maybe in The Next town, anywhere, that can give him the paid work.
“I just need to have money in The House and put the food on The Table for The Wife and the Children . "
Vicki Crocker and Her Daughter , Kendra, who also works for the trousseauVicki Crocker has for the dowry, a Bridal wear shop in Swindon, but wedding dresses are waiting to sit on it, to be collected and no new customers come through The Door for some time.
she's not sure how much exactly the new package you can use without going through the figures of The Last Three years, a cut of their profits. Business had improved, since The Shop moved to a new site in the Old Town .
"We will get Something , but we don't get anything close to what we would have expected that [driving without a down]," she says.
In the Bridal business a lot of money invested in new stock every season, which means that businesses often make losses, so that some Bridal shops are probably nothing, she thinks.
“We're in luck. We have no debt, a lot of money," she says. But she is also worried about her suppliers, some of which More Than 50,000 pounds Threshold .
"I think that [the government] has done The Best that you can in The Time you had," she says. “It is a good package for The People who can help to do it, but not for The People who don't get it. "
artisans Roderick ZuskarRoderick Zuskar works as a craftsman in Macclesfield. He earned about £18,000 Last Year , the houses of The People painting, Mending Fences and other Odd Jobs , so he will be able to access the Registrar-support-package.
“It will definitely help, Thank You very much. But, June?", he says. He can not see how to manage he and his partner will be, until then. She works part time, earning Around £11,000 in a year, and they have Two Children , seven and 10.
"I know you're trying to help everyone is difficult," he says, but he questions what he will do for money Until June .
After he tried The Last week, about Electricity providers, The Bank and the supermarkets on The Phone , he is concerned that The Process has access to the new finance package, or Universal credit to tide him over, just so difficult.
Roderick is skeptical, everything can be smoothly handled, and worried, it could take even longer than suggested.
"Why can't you pay for broadband or Electricity – give us the for Free - Something easy", he asks.
Elaine (not her real name) is a self-employed criminal lawyer in Birmingham, but she falls through the cracks of the Chancellor of the new provisions.
you earned £51,000 Last Year , just over the Threshold for access to support. “I Understand , £51k is a lot of money for a lot of people, but I'm in debt [due to the taking of maternity leave], So There 's not much about at The End of the month. "
"My Last day In Court was on Tuesday, and I don't know how long that is for. "
"It is a bit of a Kick In The Teeth ," she says, after almost 20 years working for The Crown Prosecution Service.
“I think it's great that there is a bailout, but I don't think that it is the treatment of the self-employed alike for the employed. If it is not an [income] ceiling for employees, why is it that the self-employed?"
“I try to be stoic and British about it, but it irritated me that those who benefit from the cash-in-hand payments, because, they say, their profits were Under £50k, if we don't know what they were. "
"I could go" cap-in-hand-family, but it is not what I want to do. "
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Source of news: bbc.com