questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has undertaken an assessment of the potential merits of creating a sick pay scheme for self-employed people.
answerText: Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is paid for by employers and there is no mechanism to include the self-employed in SSP. It is important to highlight that many self-employed people already choose to take out some form of insurance or income protection to financia...
heading: Sick Leave: Self-employed