Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

We had a brush with UC a while back, and it took me 5 minutes to realise that earning the massive (sic) amount I did rendered it pointless. How on earth folk who need it survive god only knows.

I put my claim in at the weekend but held off on booking an appointment as I was waiting to see what the self-employed measures would be.

I'll ring for my appointment (which could be weeks off I know) tomorrow morning as, at this stage, every little will help. Won't keep me going but it will pay half of my bills.

Horrid times for many and I know I'm one of the luckier ones - although it's hard to feel that way atm.

 

[BlueToff]

So a bloke on £60000 gets it?

Or a bloke on £18k gets £60k?

 

[COYBL25]

The unit I seen is in a invention yet if successful, and it's looking positive the UK government are very interested as it a revolutionary easy to make and easy to use and the computer operating it will be the size of a modem with a pipe to pump air into the lungs nothing like the old equipment Dyson will produce......

Maybe with your superior knowledge of all things Dyson, you may be called upon as a technical advisor Joey.

Plus you’re sitting on the worlds biggest stockpile of spare parts too.

 

[roydo]

I put my claim in at the weekend but held off on booking an appointment as I was waiting to see what the self-employed measures would be.

I'll ring for my appointment (which could be weeks off I know) tomorrow morning as, at this stage, every little will help. Won't keep me going but it will pay half of my bills.

Horrid times for many and I know I'm one of the luckier ones - although it's hard to feel that way atm.

Good luck mate. We found it bewildering.

 

[edge]

And teach folk to make nourishing and low cost soup instead of the pricey convenience crap I see going through the checkouts.

Yes mate you can make a decent soup out of stuff that cost next to nothing or left overs.
Couple of years ago a colleague of mine was going through a rough patch financial wise, I noticed he was bringing so right rubbish into work to eat.
Wouldn't take a loan or any money off me , so I taught him to make soup and a few basic things , even cleaning stuff out of vinegar ect, to help him along , I learned to live on next to nothing at one stage when I literally had no money despite working after a divorce.
Got my wages and went further in debt.
But it taught me a few valuable lessons in life.

 

[edge]

So a bloke on £60000 gets it?

Yep and a bloke on £94 everybody for a few months.

 

[PhilM]

On top of their wages? Instead of their wages? As a top up to their wages? Not quite as easy as it sounds. Think they have done ok myself. Not brilliant, but ok.

My wife and I are both in the public sector and our pay is almost certainly secure: I'm still out at work, but she's at home. Do we need money from the government?

Not at all. I'd probably only use it to pay for a holiday after this has all cleared on or even buy some shares, which certainly wouldn't be the aim of it.

 

[BlueToff]

Good luck mate. We found it bewildering.

Yeh the claim bit was simple enough but time-consuming.

God knows what the app will be like.

 

[Dixieslaces]

100+ deaths in a day was inevitable.

What is reassuring is that we are still tracking below Italy and well below Spain, before the impact of the stringent lock down can be measured.

We arent fella, Italy we are just ahead of their tracking!

 

[aazak]

Many Britons are not taking social distancing for covid-19 seriously

Data from Citymapper, a route-planning app, show they are moving around more than other Europeans

www.economist.com

 

[ToffeeTim]

Pay and whatnot for the self employed is needlessly complex and puts further stress on the DWP - which is already dealing with so many UC applications.

But, of course, the Tories would rather not roll out a simple UBI program

Unfortunately nothing about this situation is simple.

In fact putting these schemes in place for employee job retention, the self employed, business grants, business loans, and doing so in a fair way, is probably the toughest thing any government has had to do since Attlee's government started the welfare state.

 

[xena]

Im in a partnership with my brother .
As a company we made £60000 profit and its been similar the last three years.As its a partnership we do individual tax returns so £30000 each profit.Im thinking it will go off the £30000 as thats what we earned is that correct.

 

[Dymak]

I don't believe that the next of kin need to provide permission for the NHS or the government to record their cause of death as part of a data set. It's a matter of public record and wouldn't breach GDPR as its anonymised. Even if it wasn't anonymised, the sharing of such information would be classed as being a 'public task' or 'vital interests'.

Deaths that are subjected to inquests aren't provided with any privacy whatsoever. Members of the public are allowed to attend the inquests of strangers, and the media are allowed to publish all of the information disclosed during the inquest. Name, age, date of birth, the lot.

 

[daza_1973]

 

[Barnfred 55]

Been catching up with some family members today to see how covid19 is impacting them.

My sister and her daughter work in admin roles for the NHS and are both based at the Royal Liverpool. She said they're gearing up for an expected big increase in cases from next week. If it happens, she and the rest of the clerical staff will be taking over some of the tasks from the day wards, releasing the medical staff for virus duties. Things like feeding patients, portering, answering phones etc. She normally takes minutes for the finance director so she won't know what's hit her. Seriously though she's understandably more than a bit concerned from a health perspective.

One of my brothers was diagnosed with leukaemia in December. He's had one intensive bout of chemo and went back into the Royal yesterday for a further in house chemo session, and was due to be in for another 3/4 weeks. He's been tested for covid-19 (because the chemo wipes out his immune syndrome and would kill him if he had the virus) and is waiting on the results. But he's just been told that, even if the test comes back clear they still might decide not to go ahead with the chemo because they might need the ICU bed he will be taking up for the coronavirus patients. It's a conundrum for them. The last chemo session was a great success and they wanted to follow it up quickly whilst they were winning the fight. But the flip side is that, apart from taking up a potentially crucial ICU bed, he'd also be in an building swimming with covid-19 with little or no immune system. These are the sort of decisions our doctors are having to make daily and the epidemic is nowhere near anticipated levels yet.