Table of contents

  1. Using this guide
  2. Clinically extremely vulnerable
  3. Coronavirus and COVID-19
  4. Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  5. Deaths and COVID-19
  6. Furlough
  7. Local lockdowns and restrictions
  8. Lockdown
  9. Long COVID
  10. New variants of the coronavirus
  11. NHS Test and Trace
  12. Outbreak or pandemic
  13. Pre-coronavirus and pre-lockdown
  14. Quarantine
  15. R number
  16. Self Employment Income Support Scheme Grants
  17. Self-isolation
  18. Shielding
  19. Social distancing
  20. Spread
  21. Support bubble
  22. Vaccines and vaccinations 
  23. Waves

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Self Employment Income Support Scheme Grants

The Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) was made up of four taxable government grants for self-employed individuals. These grants were lump sums rather than paid as a monthly salary. For those that qualified, the grants were based on average profits from the past three tax years.  

Use “Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS)” for the first use of the term in each section. Refer to it as “SEISS” after that.  

Use “first grant”, “second grant” and “third grant” to refer to the different stages of the grant.  

SEISS was different to furlough and should be referred to as “support for the self-employed”, “self-employed support” or “self-employed support grants”.  

The term furlough should only be used to refer to those who were employed by an employer and met various qualifying dates and criteria, for example, on a Pay As You Earn (PAYE) roll by 30 October 2020.