ISME: Welfare penalises self-employed
ISME said the current differences in the social welfare system meant the self-employed struggled to access any benefits, with the knock-on effect of disincentivising entrepreneurship at a time when the economy needed it to create jobs.
ISME chief executive, Mark Fielding, described the current social welfare system as “completely unfair, based on antiquated, bureaucratic and cumbersome legislation, which penalises the self-employed and denies their social welfare entitlements:
