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UK Government Extends Furlough Scheme Until The End Of March 2021

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Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe UK government has pledged to extend the furlough scheme, which covers 80% of worker wages, on the same day that England enters a second nation-wide lockdown.Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the scheme, which was meant to be wound down at the end of October, will now run until the end of March next year.

It will be reviewed in January and the government is likely to ask employers to make contributions.Sunak said that “significant” economic uncertainty amid a brutal second wave of coronavirus meant it was right “to go further” in paying the wages of people who might otherwise lose their jobs.

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