Closing furlough ‘could lead to 10% unemployment’
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Closing the government scheme which is paying furloughed workers’ wages is a “mistake”, an economic research group has said.
It could push unemployment to 10% this year, the research suggests.
The latest furlough figures show 9.5 million people are using the scheme, the same as a week ago, and at a total cost of £31.7bn to the Treasury.
But those figures are…
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