Furloughed Workers – HMRC Portal
It seems that the portal for reclaiming employee wages and salaries will not be up and running until the end of April. Businesses can top up salaries but only need to pay 80% of gross salaries up to a maximum of £2,500 per month. That means businesses will need to find these payments until they can claim and receive the grant monies being made available through the scheme.
What isn’t clear yet is what happens about Employer’s secondary class 1 NI Contributions but hopefully we’ll get clarity on that soon along with zero hours and commission based remuneration.