How to Claim SEISS 5

What You Will Need to Make Your Claim

The fifth Self-Employed Income Support Scheme grant works slightly different to prior iterations. You will need to provide two years of annual turnover figures to generate the amount of support that you are entitled too.

You do not need turnover figures if you started trading in 2019/2020 and did not trade in the three tax years prior to this:

2018/2019
2017/2018
2016/2017

When you claim you will also need your:

Your Self Employed Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)
National Insurance Number
Government Gateway Credentials (ID and Password)
UK Account details (Account Number, Sort Code, etc.)

Only provide bank details that accept BACS payments. Other information and documentation you may be asked to provide include your driving licence, passport or documentation relevant to your identification.

If you do not have any of these details

How to get your Unique Tax Reference and your National Insurance Number

If you cannot remember your Government Gateway ID or password, you can attempt to recover them. You can do this when making your claim. You may need to answer questions about your passport, driving license or information held on your credit file.
If you do not have a Government Gateway ID or password, you can create one when making your claim.

How to Claim

Visit the government website to start your claim

You should make your claim on or after the personal claim date HMRC has given you
You must make the claim yourself, any claim by made by anyone other than the benefactor could be deemed as fraudulent.
You must not claim if you know you are not eligible else you may be liable to pay a penalty.

Return to your claim

If you need to return to your claim, you can:

Check your payment status
Update your bank details
Check previous grant payments
Check to see whether the grant received is correct

After you’ve claimed

Your claim will be checked by the HMRC and you should receive payment of the grant within 6 working days. If you fail to receive payment or notification of payment within this time we suggest that you contact the HMRC directly and they should be able to help you.

Records you need to keep

You must keep a copy of all records in line with normal self-employment record keeping requirements, including the:

Amount claimed
Grant claim reference

If you’re currently trading but have reduced demand

You must keep any evidence that your business has had reduced activity, capacity or demand due to COVID-19.

If your business is temporarily unable to trade

You must keep evidence if your business has been unable to trade due to COVID-19, such as: a record of dates where you had to close due to government restrictions
NHS testing and tracing communications
a letter or email from the NHS asking you to shield
test results if you’ve been diagnosed with COVID-19
letters or emails from your child’s school with information on closures or reduced hours

For any further enquires do not hesitate to contact us

SEISS Grant 5 | Survey

Find out if you qualify for the SEISS grant 5 by taking this quick survey. Estimated time taken to complete this survey is less than 1 minute

!Important The survey above only offers a general overview of your eligibility for the SEISS 5 grant. There are more factors that may be taken into account when the HMRC dertermine your eligibility.

SEISS 5 Calculator

How much will you recieve from the Self Employed Income Support Scheme grant in its fith iteration

Average Profit Prior to the Pandemic

Profit from the Basis Period

Important! This is only a reference point. Your total grant owed is variable depending on the information you submit. The HMRC offer further guidence on their website.

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