Response A1346199

Response to request for information

Reference

A1346199

Response date

17 December 2021

Request

All questions refer to the time period between March 2020 and up to the latest available data.

1. How many individuals have applied for the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500? Please include a month-by-month breakdown.
2. How many of those applications were made by self-employed people?
3. How many of applications made by self-employed people automatically received the payment due to being on existing benefit schemes such as Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Working Tax Credits, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, and Housing Benefit?
4. How many self-employed people who were not on benefits received the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500?
5. How many applications for the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500 made by self-employed people were rejected and what were the top three reasons for rejection in these circumstances.
6. What was the total expenditure on Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500 made for self-employed people?

Response

1. How many individuals have applied for the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500? Please include a month-by-month breakdown.
   • October 2020 - 102
   • November 2020 - 63
   • December 2020 - 36
   • January 2021 - 67
   • February -2021 - 41
   • March 2021 - 13
   • April 2021 - 4
   • May 2021 - 13
   • June 2021 - 51
   • July 2021 - 191
   • August 2021 - 95
   • September - 44
   • October 2021 - 46
   • November 2021 - 48
   • December 2021 - 50 (to end of 16 December)
2. How many of those applications were made by self-employed people?
   • 227
3. How many of applications made by self-employed people automatically received the payment due to being on existing benefit schemes such as Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Working Tax Credits, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support, and Housing Benefit?
   • 63
4. How many self-employed people who were not on benefits received the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500?
   • 50
5. How many applications for the Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500 made by self-employed people were rejected and what were the top three reasons for rejection in these circumstances.
   • 114 - failing to provide information requested, not engaging with NHS Test & Trace, not meeting local set discretionary rules
6. What was the total expenditure on Self-Isolation Support Grant of £500 made for self-employed people?
   • £56,500 (113 claims of £500)