Rejected petition A furlough scheme or financial aid for those made redundant due to Covid-19.

Parliament must recognise the 695,000+ people who left company payrolls since March as a result of Covid-19. To help, they must consider rent/mortgage breaks, increased JSA, salary based JSA, or salary based payouts to those made redundant before 2 years service (who aren't entitled to any payout).

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While employees continue to benefit from a furlough scheme, those made redundant face a crippled job market with no financial aid other than weekly JSA (£58.90 for 18-24's, £74.35 for 25+). This is NOT ENOUGH and hardworking people are at risk of losing their homes and/or depleting the savings they had put aside for housing deposits/children's education. Meanwhile, the "retraining scheme" doesn't even cater for those who already have qualifications, many of whom also have student debt.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/558032

You may also like to sign these petitions which call for related actions:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/559422
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/327197

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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Date submitted 1 November 2020
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