Sep 21, 2020 | Current Affairs
Nearly a million workers returned to their jobs part-time in the first month that flexible furlough was introduced, official figures show.The Treasury revealed 950,000 workers – 20% of those furloughed across the UK – went back to their places of employment to work on...
Sep 18, 2020 | Current AffairsGovernment Announcements
The Government has announced it is extending a ban on business evictions to the end of this year. Measures were introduced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to protect struggling businesses from being evicted from premises but were due to expire by the end of...
Sep 17, 2020 | Current Affairs
The eat out to help out scheme launched by the Government amid the coronavirus crisis has pushed the UK inflation rate to a five-year low in August as restaurant prices decrease. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), consumer prices (CPI) in August...
Sep 16, 2020 | Current Affairs
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed support for mortgage borrowers who continue to face payment difficulties amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week (14 September 2020), the FCA published additional guidance for firms to ensure support for...
Sep 15, 2020 | Current Affairs
HMRC has written to employers who it believes have overclaimed on the coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS), demanding they repay payments or face a fine. HMRC revealed 3,000 employers, out of 1.2 million who have applied for the grant during the COVID-19 pacedmic,...
