The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has tonight announced that charities across the UK will receive a £750 million package of support to help them survive the coronavirus crisis.
20.03.2020 - 21:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The Government is pumping almost £7billion into the welfare system to protect people's incomes during the coronavirus pandemic, the Chancellor has announced.
The Universal Credit standard allowance will be increased by £1,000 a year for the next 12 months Rishi Sunak said, while the working tax credit basic element will be boosted by the same amount.
The measures to strengthen the welfare system will benefit more than four million of the most vulnerable households, he said on Friday.
Self-emplo
The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has tonight announced that charities across the UK will receive a £750 million package of support to help them survive the coronavirus crisis.
Self-employed workers will have to wait until June to get a £2500-a-month government bail out to help them through the coronavirus pandemic.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce a financial package aimed at helping the self-employed today.
The Scottish Government has called on the chancellor to offer more help to self-employed workers impacted by Coronavirus.
"The Government’s proposals fall far short of the lifeline needed by the self-employed in the music industry and creative sector," says CEO Tom Kiehl
Hospitality giant G1 Group have backtracked on their decision to axe hundreds of Scots workers amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The U.K. government has put in place another series of unprecedented financial measures aimed at assisting the economy during the coronavirus crisis.
Restaurateurs have welcomed a move from by the government to cover staff wages after they were formally ordered to close their businesses today.
A bail out was also announced that will see the government pay up to 80% of wages in order to protect workers during the coronavirus pandemic