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  Replacement of Coronavirus Support Schemes With More Targeted Assistance
  
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  @ MP voted aye to replace the coronavirus support schemes for employees and the self-employed with more targeted income support to businesses and self-employed people.
  @ MP voted no against replacing the coronavirus support schemes for employees and the self-employed with more targeted income support to businesses and self-employed people.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against replacing the [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-could-be-covered-by-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme Coronavirus Job Retention] and [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-grant-through-the-coronavirus-covid-19-self-employment-income-support-scheme Self-Employment Income Support Scheme]s with more targeted support to businesses and self-employed people. 
  
  The Coronavirus Job Retention scheme[1] funds 80% of regular wages for those put on leave (furloughed), capped at Â£2,500 per month, with payments made via employers.  The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme[2] offered 80% of the previous three years' average self-employment profits for three months, capped at Â£8,400, followed by 70% of profits for a further three months, capped at Â£6,570.[2][3]  
  
  
  
  The motion opposed by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That this House
  :''calls for the Government'' to abandon its one-size-fits-all withdrawal of the Coronavirus Job Retention and Self-Employment Income Support Schemes, and instead offer targeted income support to businesses and self-employed people in those sectors of the economy that have been hardest hit by the virus and are most in need of continuing assistance, and in those areas of the country which have been placed under local restrictions due to rising rates of infection.
  
  Technically the motion rejected by a majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the original words stand part of the Question.
  
  the "original words" were those in the motion quoted above. 
  
  * [1] [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-could-be-covered-by-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, Gov.uk website.] 
  * [2] [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-grant-through-the-coronavirus-covid-19-self-employment-income-support-scheme Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, Gov.uk website]
  * [3] [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-hmrc-works-out-total-income-and-trading-profits-for-the-self-employment-income-support-scheme#how-we-work-out-the-amount-of-the-first-grant  How HMRC works out trading profits and non-trading income for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, Gov.uk website]
  
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