"Govt Pay me to be in Covid scheme"

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According to the maskless woman who shoved past everyone to the front of the queue in the supermarket just now & chucked a quid for her chocolate at the staff, she's "had the jab, is tested every week & gets paid £25 a month to be part of a Covid test group". Really? Staff just looked bemused, queue was v unimpressed, me included. What 'scheme' is this ?

The ONS scheme pays you £25 per COVID test every week.

I should say, pay is in voucher form.

Not sure why you’d be able to queue jump even if you were immune to covid

Yeah me and dp are doing it. Getting £850 overall for it.
Not sure why she's using it as a reason to queue push though??

ONS but it’s for covid testing, not queue jumping.

Ex-h is in this. £50 for first test, £25 each time since.
He's having a blood test this time too presumably for anti-bodies. He was selected at random, didn't volunteer or anything.

Where the fuck you sign up for this shit haha

So there was a queue and she basically walked to the front ignoring everyone else? Did nobody say "excuse me cheeky bitch off to the back you fuck?"

It's a £25 per month voucher but you get the results after more than a week and it definitely doesn't say you can jump queues

I'm on it, it's run by the Office For National Statistics. It was a covid test every week for the first 5 weeks, then monthly & yes we get £25 in vouchers for every test.

Doesn't mean I push in queues, though & don't wear masks.

Our household is in it.

I still wear a mask and queue in the supermarket. And I'm pretty sure I'm immune to Covid now. I'm in long Covid, have regular blood tests which show antibodies and regular swabs which are negative. I have had the first of my jabs.

Still doesn't make me special.

A couple I know get tested every week and get £50 of vouchers which they use in Tesco

@Gatekeeper

A couple I know get tested every week and get £50 of vouchers which they use in Tesco

No.

You only get £50 for the first test. Then £25 per week for another 4 weeks.

They then come once a month for £25.

You can choose from a long list of retailers where to use your e-vouchers.

It's the Office for National Statistics Covid infection survey. We're in it too (me and 21yo and 16yo). Vouchers as pps said but it absolutely does not give us permission to not wear masks or queue jump! She was just an idiot.
It's a random selection of households, you have to be asked, you can't apply.

We are in it. Its quite a lot of money, I'd have done it for a fiver! I think we answered some random ONS survey and few weeks prior to being selected, dont know if it was connected

Well this is news to me! I’m taking part in an ONS study along with most of the staff and 2 year groups of students at my school (teacher). We have a Covid test and an AB blood test every month, we get paid nothing!

I think people were too taken aback & gobsmacked to comment. As she left, someone muttered 'thats not 2metres' & she loudly said something about 'not being a dog' ?! Bizarre.

She sounds batshit but equally the muttering about 2 meters is irritating and stupid also

Yeh I'm in that scheme. £25 for swab test £25 for blood test. Weekly for 2 months then monthly thereafter.

The queue/jab bit is bollocks though.

All I can say is that the survey needs idiots like her to reflect the trends amongst the general public. ONS pick random cross sections of the public for all kinds of surveys - some paid (by voucher) some not.

Dh and I have been doing the ONS testing. Once a week for a month, then once a month for a year. £25 voucher each per test, not bad for momentary discomfort.

It doesn’t entitle us to queue-jump though - the woman was being ridiculous.