Coronavirus: what is happening to the UK furlough scheme?

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has extended the UK government’s Job Retention Scheme and will also boost financial help for the self-employed — a support package that could cost nearly £100bn in total. However, there are conditions attached to his largesse. Join our live Q&A with the FT's personal finance editor Claer Barrett and executive news editor Dan Thomas at 12pm UK time Tuesday. Our experts will attempt to explain how the chancellor plans to dial down emergency support in favour of a “national effort” to create jobs and build a new economy.

[NomadProfessional]

Pandemic era economics has shown that the real economy is more important than speculation, stopping (furlough) or aid for workers would create real problems as stopping this aid suddenly would create mass unemployment, because the companies themselves would have to pay the workforce without the workforce creating any products or services to trade. Sudden mass unemployment and social political/economic crisis?

[Caz]

Starving the pensioners and paying their due monies to the migrants and Lock-up costs instead. Restore the National INSURANCE Act/CONTRACT based State Pension to 60/65. As per NI LEGAL CONTRACT. Still collecting NI Premiums directly from people's wages. Evidence of a LEGAL CONTRACT still in place. But no ...