Delighted to be invited to attend tomorrow’s second virtual Excluded APPG meeting, representing the 1.6m - 2m+ New Starters STILL abandoned by @RishiSunak. Thanks @Jamie4North for the invitation - on behalf of all at @NewStarterJust, I look forward to it. #newstarterjustice
You’re refusing to acknowledge the additional 1.3million+ New Starters (according to more accurate statistics available) @ExcludedUK your breakdown is the most basic 600k, ignoring several critical factors (seasonal. span is beyond 1 month?) then HALVED by your own assumptions?!
We now know thankfully furlough's helped 8.9m people alone. Yet 3m are #excluded from support schemes. Here's some of the things they may've done 'wrong'
-Changed jobs
-Started biz in last 18mths+
-Been freelance
-Ltd co directors
-Worked for agency
-Had employer who didn't care
The latest figures show the government's spent more than £27 billion pounds on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self Employed Income Support Scheme. @hmtreasury It's still not clear why the 2-3 million people excluded from support are not equally deserving of help.
There are many groups you have conveniently cast aside! It’s time to address the inequalities of the support schemes! @RishiSunak Help us all come out the other end, to help ourselves & the economy- quite simply, support us now please! #newstarterjustice#ExcludedUK#ForgottenLtd
Hasn’t been a lifeline for the 1.5 million plus workers left out of all the schemes, due to a date loophole
Left with nothing, left to suffer, left veering towards poverty for so many and left so flipping frustrated that no-one will help them.
@newstarterjustice @RishiSunak
Not a hope in hell!!
What of we had at #newstarterjustice ????
A big fat zero, thanks to @RishiSunak.
Will earn under the tax threshold forever, as will never pay again into a system which did not help me and 1.5 million others, when we needed it.
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Your inaction @RishiSunak is wrong, on so many levels, leaving people in financial difficulty, when they’re also going through the pandemic & suffering the impact of lockdown! Not to mention the detrimental impact this is having on unemployment! @BorisJohnson#newstarterjustice
#newstarterjustice#newstarterfurlough highlighted this injustice in April @RishiSunak changing the rules for family benefit! The sum that infosys/Simplus have claimed from UK coffers would gave really helped the new starters that put the money there!!
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#newstarterfurlough#newstarterjustice have been asking since April why the changes were suddenly corrected for TUPE’d employees, citing this family relationship then. It is wrong & an abuse of @RishiSunak position when he wont afford the same grace to all taxpayers. @MelJStride
#newstarterjustice denied the same support given, that uses methods of proving Employee legitimacy that New Starters would meet nearly every time. @RishiSunak your defence is officially nil beyond your own personal refusal, one that is destroying the homes of 1.6m+ taxpayers.
This is the worst thing for us. We went from being told that no one would be left behind, to being told that not every job could be saved. Don’t know if you’ve seen our latest statistics report, but it’s appalling how much individuals are being affected, financially and mentally.
#borisjohnsonmustgo and tell @RishiSunak that it is vital that he amends the CJRS furlough scheme to include the 1.6m+ new start Employees who have been abandoned with nothing for changing jobs before lockdown. It’s forcing 100,000’s into unemployment. #newstarterjustice
@MartinSLewis@10DowningStreet Martin, it feels like a lifetime ago you first acknowledged the New Starter Campaign, here we still are. On behalf of the team here’s 2 things. Our utmost thanks, and a highlight of our extensive research into details of those affected. Can email a full report. #newstarterjustice