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Old 09-01-2020, 03:37 PM #33
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Originally Posted by parmnion View Post
If the workers are on universal credits they recieve the bonus at the end of january but then it's taken out of the uc payment for March. ..so basically Greggs have just paid the government 7 million. ...is this correct?
Yes, pretty much.

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Originally Posted by Shaun View Post
This is what I'd read on the subject, too. Workers aren't really getting anything out of it. Might even screw their budgets up for March, too.
They'll need to bank the money in January and keep it to cover the shortfall in March and even then, depending on various technicalities, they might actually end up worse off.

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Originally Posted by Cherie View Post
Not every Greggs employee is on Universal credit surely
It's minimum wage retail so any with kids will be, unless they have a partner who is on much more than they are. I doubt it's all of them but I'd guess at least half.
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