Some constituents have sent me a copy of a campaign email
entitled “ URGENT New Starter Justice campaign”.
There is mention of an early day motion. As a principle I
never sign early day motions as they very rarely achieve anything whilst at the
same time running up costs to the tax payer.
Pay as you earn real time information (PAYE RTI) has been
in place since 2013. It requires all employers to notify HMRC of their
liability to PAYE when or before they pay employees.
This well-established, secure and verifiable system has
been used by the government to reach out to literally millions of employees
through the furlough scheme during the medical crisis. The government
introduced the furlough scheme with astonishing speed bearing in mind the scale
of the task.
Revising forward the cut-off date following the
announcement of the scheme, would leave the tax payer open to the significant
risk of fraud.
There are other measures in place to help those who fall
outside the cut off date or who are unable to revert to a previous employer for
furloughing:
Cornwall Council have recently set up the People Hub
hotline for more specific employment advice, which is available on:
0333 0150699 between 10am-5pm, Monday to Friday
Cornwall Council have a landing page for Coronavirus:
Grants:
There is also a grant via Turn2Us for those in extreme
financial hardship but it is temporarily closed, they do have a grant finder
though:
Also there are funds available directly from Cornwall
Council hardship fund:
