Help for small businesses and the self employed
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Announcements from the Government are coming thick and fast about the help available for small business in these difficult times.
An expert panel joins Adam Shaw to discuss and answer your questions on what assistance might be on offer.
We also look at issues facing the self-employed and discuss what support is currently out there for them. Get in touch by email: moneybox@bbc.co.uk or tweet: @moneybox.
Joining Adam: Will Hadwen - rights adviser from Working Families Sonali Parekh - Head of Policy at the Federation for Small Businesses Alasdair Hutchison - Policy Development Manager from the Association of Independent Professionals and Self Employed
Producer: Darin Graham Editor: Emma Rippon
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| 0:48.3 | Hello, there is still huge confusion amongst the millions of small business owners and self-employed about what financial help they're entitled to, how to access it and how quickly they can get support. |
| 0:55.6 | Small businesses have had to close and the self-employed have from one day to the next |
| 0:59.5 | seen their income full to zero. Well, if you're running a small business or indeed if you're |
| 1:04.4 | self-employed yourself and you're worried or you're confused about what's happening, |
| 1:08.5 | you can email or text us now with your questions to Moneybox at BBC.com.uk or tweet us at Moneybox. We've had lots of people contacting us already and let's go to one of them straightaway. Andy, thank you for joining me. I understand you run a stationary shop. Obviously that had to close down, clearly |
| 1:28.8 | very difficult times. Yes, good afternoon, Adam. Yes, we run a high street stationery business |
| 1:35.0 | that also runs a print shop out of the back. So we've had to close the front door of our business. |
| 1:41.8 | And unfortunately today actually had to go in to do a print job for a funeral |
| 1:46.3 | service that's in the next couple of days. But yes, we have no access to a public fund, |
| 1:53.3 | should we call it. Well, you're concerned I understand particularly about this thing called |
| 1:56.9 | the business retention scheme. Is it well? And what's your particular question? |
| 2:01.1 | Well, there's too many because it's the information overload that we're having from |
| 2:06.0 | everything that obviously we know that we can put our staff on furlough periods |
| 2:11.3 | so that they can get paid 80% of their salary for the next two months and that will be reviewed |
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