PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (30 December 2020)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of placing conditions on furlough payments under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to ensure employees receive payments on time.

Asked by:
Nadia Whittome (Labour)

As with all decisions under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), the Government is balancing the need to support as many employers and individuals as fully as it possibly can, with the need to get the CJRS running quickly and making it easy to use by employers.

After an employer makes a claim under the CJRS, HMRC check that the claim is correct and pay the claim amount into the employer’s bank account within six working days. The employer must then pay their employees’ wages, if they have not already.

The employer must pay the full amount claimed for the employee’s wages to the employee.

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
11 January 2021