Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

(asked on 30th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps an employee can take when they have not been paid furlough by their employer, when that employer has received the Government payment under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 9th October 2020

The scheme rules make it clear that no grant is payable if the employer is not going to abide by the requirement to pay the furloughed employee 80% of their usual monthly wage (up to a cap of £2,500). HMRC have powers to check and recover any amounts claimed where the employee has not been paid enough.

If workers are concerned they are not receiving this, they should report their employer to HMRC via the online fraud reporting tool on the Government’s website, or use HMRC’s telephone-based fraud hotline. HMRC will continue to monitor claim data, compare against records of earnings and review reports to their fraud hotline.

The Government retains the right to audit retrospectively all aspects of the scheme with scope to claw back fraudulent claims.

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