This is precisely what has happened with the news this week that high numbers of employers have been breaching the rules of the furlough scheme – as reader Rita from Cardiff has just found out. But on September 2 Rita ­received an email, from what appeared to be an HMRC address. It asked Rita to provide details of how many months she had been on the furlough scheme and to provide details of her salary and furlough payments. The following Friday she got a phone call from a lady announcing herself as being from the HMRC Fraud team. She claimed Rita had been overpaid under the furlough scheme by £835 and that this had been caused by her redundancy.

Source: Daily Mirror September 13, 2020 06:00 UTC