Over the past week, I’ve been speaking to self-employed people up and down the country to get an idea of how the pandemic is affecting them. During the coronavirus pandemic, the self-employed have been the first to lose work and the last to get help. “While my employees have been given help, my self-employed workers have been thrown to the wolves,” she said. A recent paper from the Autonomy thinktank sets out three possible methods of supporting self-employed people. As Will Stronge, co-director of Autonomy, puts it: “There are existing institutions and mechanisms already in place that hold the bank details of self-employed workers across the country.

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2020 17:37 UTC