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EvelynWho

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« Reply #300 on: 03 March 2021, 05:04:54 pm »
April?? Fuck sake.
Is that the one we’re meant to be surviving on right now? Which we haven’t got.
How is anyone coping. I can’t. This is ridiculous.

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« Reply #301 on: 03 March 2021, 05:39:08 pm »
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Is that the one we’re meant to be surviving on right now? Which we haven’t got.

Yep. And there's a missing 2 months this year like there was last year. It's like they think people can live on fresh air and clapping.

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« Reply #302 on: 03 March 2021, 06:32:00 pm »
Just read we have to wait until “late” April to claim the 4th grant. That’s about 7 weeks away! I’m obviously grateful for the help but I don’t get why there’s such a long delay when people on furlough get paid monthly

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« Reply #303 on: 03 March 2021, 06:52:30 pm »
Just read we have to wait until “late” April to claim the 4th grant. That’s about 7 weeks away! I’m obviously grateful for the help but I don’t get why there’s such a long delay when people on furlough get paid monthly

It's disgusting making people wait on the grant but not on furlough. Plus it's there fault not allowing us to work legally so the ones that have stuck to lockdown rules really suffer. What is more bad they do not take into account the last years tax return especially if job title changed. Business loans are not great either as you still have to pay that debt back and they are stopping us working til May.

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« Reply #304 on: 03 March 2021, 07:29:23 pm »
What I am waiting to see is if the rules around "over 50% of income has to be from self-employment" still applies and if so, what period of time are they talking about.

For me, before Covid-19, yes.

In the 2019-2020 tax return done just over a month ago, no.

Just read the doc on..Gov websites 'at least equal to'

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« Reply #305 on: 03 March 2021, 08:07:54 pm »
Just read we have to wait until “late” April to claim the 4th grant. That’s about 7 weeks away! I’m obviously grateful for the help but I don’t get why there’s such a long delay when people on furlough get paid monthly

Its ridiculous it will probably be May before we get anything but the payment is for January, February, March. What are our bills disappearing for April?

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« Reply #306 on: 03 March 2021, 08:59:32 pm »
Mid fucking April, seriously wtf  :FF.

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« Reply #307 on: 03 March 2021, 09:12:19 pm »
To qualify, you must have filed your 2019-20 Self Assessment tax return by 2 March 2021, at the latest.

You what???

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« Reply #308 on: 03 March 2021, 09:16:11 pm »
To qualify, you must have filed your 2019-20 Self Assessment tax return by 2 March 2021, at the latest.

You what???

Shouldn't your 2019-2020 one have been filed between April 2020 and January 2021? Or am I missing something

EvelynWho

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« Reply #309 on: 03 March 2021, 09:16:29 pm »
To qualify, you must have filed your 2019-20 Self Assessment tax return by 2 March 2021, at the latest.

You what???

Me being dumb as fuck. Never mind. I thought it meant 20/21 -

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« Reply #310 on: 03 March 2021, 09:26:28 pm »
Me being dumb as fuck. Never mind. I thought it meant 20/21 -

I mean either way it's not quite right as it's late for the 2019-2020 one and early for 2020-2021.

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« Reply #311 on: 03 March 2021, 09:52:34 pm »
I mean either way it's not quite right as it's late for the 2019-2020 one and early for 2020-2021.
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Some people file late, the deadline was at the last minute quietly extended to 28th February this year for 19/20.

Last year folk were scrambling to get the 18/19 return in for the 23rd April deadline for the first SEISS, should have been in for 31st January that year (2020).

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« Reply #312 on: 03 March 2021, 10:17:51 pm »
What is more bad they do not take into account the last years tax return

They are. That's the reason being given for the wait; the time needed to process all the tax returns for the year ended April 2020, not just for people who claimed previous grants but also the half million or so people who can now access it but couldn't before because they became self employed after 5th April 2019. What is shit is that they didn't put some plans to sort this in place before now, since I find it hard to believe this was just decided this morning.

Its ridiculous it will probably be May before we get anything but the payment is for January, February, March. What are our bills disappearing for April?

The fourth grant is for February, March and April - January was covered by the last one.

I've just paid some big bills that I was behind with (stupidly assuming that we'd be able to get the grant at some point by mid-late March) so it's going to be a very thin couple of months. That'll learn me.

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« Reply #313 on: 03 March 2021, 10:25:09 pm »
Yeah your right Amy i just read that the last tax return there including it. Not sure how much including but it will be better for some that got nothing.

Actually i cannot believe too that they let a lot suffer this whole time and now are only including it which i read some poor people commited suicide over getting nothing. They should back date people to be fair.
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« Reply #314 on: 04 March 2021, 05:28:03 am »
Just pleased I will be getting a tax rebate in April once I submit my 2020/21 earnings so that will help survive better again sorely needed as the balance of my private pension monies is being dipped into until I can replenish it.....

Shocking to know that people have committed suicide over their lack of SEISS money.  It really is so unfair on them and their families.