Furloughed but company making up salary

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A friend had been furloughed but her company is making up the balance of her salary - surely this can't be right? And it's big business taking advantage.?

For goodness sake it was a genuine query. I'm not jealous of anyone I've got a healthy family, healthy jobs and healthy lifestyle. Why do some people on here have to be so nasty

Never was an OP more aptly named than this one.

The problem is that you just haven't explained what is so dreadful about this. The scheme is all about helping businesses to keep going and not making people redundant. Your point seems to be that, if a business can afford to top up salary then it shouldn't claim from the Job Retention Scheme. But the reality is that the businesses doing so clearly have to save money in order to keep going, and if they didn't do it by claiming they would be making most of the staff who are currently being furloughed redundant. That would harm all of us because it would make it much more difficult to get the economy going again once all this is over.

If it's any comfort, the Revenue have said claims will be carefully audited and any fraudulent claims will result in clawbacks and possible criminal charges. So any companies trying to exploit this will be on dangerous ground.

Firstly, I call BS on genuine query, because anyone who reads newspapers would know.

Secondly, can people stop misrepresenting that "MPs were given 10k to WFT"? In reality it is that "MP's offices have up to 10k more available to provide their staff with equipment needed to work remotely as they need special equipment due to security. The staff is also communicating with the constituents who are abroad, get thousands of queries a week etc. So need call costs covered (no access to their normal office landline), phones, broadband, laptops, printers and so on."
Or they could just say fuck it and work with what they have so most of people wouldn't get help with heir issues🤷🏻🙄

HMRC have now issued fuller details of the furlough scheme by the way assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/879484/200414_CJRS_DIRECTION_-_33_FINAL_Signed.pdf?dm_i=5GSZ,6VJO,1SB85N,Q8US,1