I am a self-employed IT contractor with my own limited company.
I can no longer apply for contracts at the moment as no companies are hiring. My last contract finished in January so on the form I entered in this date as last employment / payment.
I applied for the emergency payment but I did not receive it. I rang the social welfare office just now and the person who I was speaking with didn't really know why but suspected as my last contract ended prior to march 13 that is why I was not eligible.
(Essentially if you put a date of pre March 13rth then it seems the application went in the bin)
This makes no sense to me.
So essentially for anyone who is self-employed who by chance did not have a client after March 13th automatically does not qualify? This cannot be fair surely?
The reality is for me my business cannot trade now entirely die to the virus. Why on earth would I not be eligible and someone else who happened to have a client more recently is eligible?
Does anyone know maybe the person I spoke with in the office got it wrong? OR are there any other self-employed people here in a similar situation?
I can no longer apply for contracts at the moment as no companies are hiring. My last contract finished in January so on the form I entered in this date as last employment / payment.
I applied for the emergency payment but I did not receive it. I rang the social welfare office just now and the person who I was speaking with didn't really know why but suspected as my last contract ended prior to march 13 that is why I was not eligible.
(Essentially if you put a date of pre March 13rth then it seems the application went in the bin)
This makes no sense to me.
So essentially for anyone who is self-employed who by chance did not have a client after March 13th automatically does not qualify? This cannot be fair surely?
The reality is for me my business cannot trade now entirely die to the virus. Why on earth would I not be eligible and someone else who happened to have a client more recently is eligible?
Does anyone know maybe the person I spoke with in the office got it wrong? OR are there any other self-employed people here in a similar situation?