If you are self-employed and your business has been adversely affected by COVID-19 you may be eligible to claim a grant from HMRC of up to £7,500.
To qualify for this self-employed income support scheme (SEISS) you must meet all of these conditions:
you traded in 2018-19 and submitted your tax return for that year by 23 April 2020;
- you continued to trade in 2019-20 and expect to trade in 2020-21;
- your self-employed profits made up at least half of your average annual income over the years 2016-17 to 2018-19 or those years in which you were self-employed; and
- your profits from self-employment in 2018-19 did not exceed £50,000 or your average annual profits for 2016-17 to 2018-19 did not exceed £50,000.
You can check whether you are eligible for the grant by using HMRC’s SEISS eligibility tool on gov. uk or we can check for you.
If you are eligible you should have received a letter, email or text from HMRC telling you when you can submit your SEISS grant claim. If you have not received such a communication we can contact HMRC on your behalf to find out why.
HMRC will calculate how much grant you are due from the tax returns you have already submitted.
HMRC will calculate how much grant you are due from the tax returns you have already submitted. All you need to do is claim it. Once your claim is accepted you should receive the money straight into your bank account within six working days.
Do not be taken in by spam emails or texts which tempt you to click on an embedded link to claim the grant. The genuine HMRC emails do not include a clickable link nor require a reply.
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