A man who was made redundant during the pandemic was paid hundreds of pounds in Universal Credit after finding a new job. Matt Harris informed the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) of his new job but continued to receive the payments which he did not want or need.
Before the pandemic, he worked for an international events company as a journalist in London, Paris and Amsterdam. But the arrival of Covid in early 2020 saw many of their events cancelled and the company began losing money, Northants Live reports.
In February 2020, their main event in Italy was cancelled due to Covid and the firm haemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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