Petition · past parliament
A furlough scheme or financial aid for those made redundant due to Covid-19.
Rejected
18 signatures
What the petition asks
Parliament must recognise the 695,000+ people who left company payrolls since March as a result of Covid-19. To help, they must consider rent/mortgage breaks, increased JSA, salary based JSA, or salary based payouts to those made redundant before 2 years service (who aren't entitled to any payout).
While employees continue to benefit from a furlough scheme, those made redundant face a crippled job market with no financial aid other than weekly JSA (£58.90 for 18-24's, £74.35 for 25+). This is NOT ENOUGH and hardworking people are at risk of losing their homes and/or depleting the savings they had put aside for housing deposits/children's education. Meanwhile, the "retraining scheme" doesn't even cater for those who already have qualifications, many of whom also have student debt.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Extend financial support for workers made redundant due to Covid
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Extend Contribution-based and New Style Jobseekers Allowance during Covid-19
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You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
You may also like to sign these petitions which call for related actions:
Extend Contribution-based and New Style Jobseekers Allowance during Covid-19
Make Companies who make furloughed employees redundant pay them a retraining fee
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
Timeline
| 1 Nov 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 4 Dec 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
18
Status
Rejected
Rejected
4 Dec 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.