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Coronavirus job retention scheme rolls out

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According to HMRC, the coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS) which opened for applications on 20 April 2020, received 185,000 claims from businesses covering 1.3m furloughed employees, by midnight on its first day of operating. By 23 April, Jim Harra, HMRC’s first permanent secretary, reported in a LinkedIn article that more than 500,000 employers had made a claim, covering nearly 4m employees, with the total amount claimed standing at £4.5bn.

HMRC’s media campaign promoting the CJRS on Twitter noted that payments for wages of furloughed employees had started to be made, with claims made on 20 April arriving in employers’ bank accounts by 28 April.

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