According to HMRC, the coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS) which
opened for applications on 20 April 2020, received 185,000 claims from
businesses covering 1.3m furloughed employees, by midnight on its first day of
operating. By 23 April, Jim Harra, HMRC’s first permanent secretary, reported
in a LinkedIn
article that more than 500,000 employers had made a claim, covering nearly
4m employees, with the total amount claimed standing at £4.5bn.
HMRC’s media campaign promoting the CJRS on Twitter noted that payments for wages
of furloughed employees had started to be made, with claims made on 20 April
arriving in employers’ bank accounts by 28 April.
According to HMRC, the coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS) which
opened for applications on 20 April 2020, received 185,000 claims from
businesses covering 1.3m furloughed employees, by midnight on its first day of
operating. By 23 April, Jim Harra, HMRC’s first permanent secretary, reported
in a LinkedIn
article that more than 500,000 employers had made a claim, covering nearly
4m employees, with the total amount claimed standing at £4.5bn.
HMRC’s media campaign promoting the CJRS on Twitter noted that payments for wages
of furloughed employees had started to be made, with claims made on 20 April
arriving in employers’ bank accounts by 28 April.
