{"id":22342,"date":"2020-11-05T16:49:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=22342"},"modified":"2020-11-05T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:49:56","slug":"covid-rishi-sunak-to-extend-furlough-scheme-to-end-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/11\/05\/covid-rishi-sunak-to-extend-furlough-scheme-to-end-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: Rishi Sunak to extend furlough scheme to end of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><b class=\"css-14iz86j-BoldText e5tfeyi0\">The furlough scheme will be extended across the UK until the end of March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Mr Sunak said the scheme will pay up to 80% of a person&#8217;s wage up to \u00a32,500 a month. He told the Commons that the government will review the policy in January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The chancellor said his intention was &#8220;to give businesses security through the winter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>&#8220;The security we are providing will protect millions of jobs,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The furlough scheme subsidises the wages of people who cannot do their jobs, either because their workplace is closed or because there is no longer enough work for them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Mr Sunak said it would apply throughout the UK, saying the country had &#8220;a Treasury for the whole of the United Kingdom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The furlough scheme will be extended across the UK until the end of March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed. Mr Sunak said the scheme will pay up to 80% of a person&rsquo;s wage up to &pound;2,500 a month. He told the Commons that the government will review the policy in January. The chancellor said his intention was &ldquo;to give businesses security through the winter&rdquo;. &ldquo;The security we are providing will protect millions of jobs,&rdquo; he added. The furlough scheme subsidises the wages of people who cannot do their jobs, either<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22344,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342\/revisions\/22344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}