Hundreds of billions of pounds has been made available to help business owners, workers and the self-employed cope with the fallout of the coronavirus crisis. Here Times Money picks through what is available and how you can claim should you lose your job, find your role put on hold, fall sick or have to self-isolate. WorkersFears had grown that millions of full-time workers could be laid off at businesses forced to shut down because of the crisis. To avoid mass redundancies and help businesses keep staff on their books, the government took an unprecedented step last week and promised to pay 80 per cent of the wages of private sector employees who are unable to work due to the pandemic, up to a maximum

Source: The Times March 24, 2020 00:24 UTC