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“My self-employed work is about 40% of my total income and as it is below the Government's 50% limit, I get no help from the self-employed scheme,” she says, “I work about 30% for an agency who may furlough me - but at minimum wage- and the other 30% for a special school which is still under the local authority, unlike Academies and Free schools. I will not be able to be furloughed by the special school, due to the authority's interpretation of the Government guidelines published so far.
This is the case for Rosanna, a 26 year-old designer from London who is self-employed but has, at various contracted work throughout the year, been forced to go on PAYE. “The government has made it clear that it intends for any worker who is on a PAYE payroll to potentially benefit from the grant made available under the Job Retention Scheme,” she says, “It will be for whoever operates the payroll to decide whether or not to furlough the worker but there is no reason, in theory, why a person could not be furloughed by more than one "employer".