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A sector-specific extension of the Government furlough scheme would be welcome. There has to be a cut-off point, but the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer said that our scheme would be “world-leading” and the best scheme available.
That measure highlights the impact of housing tenure on policy levels. In Scotland 26% of social renters are only in poverty after their housing costs are factored in but for private renters the figure is 29%. 2 As JRF have pointed out in the past a key reason that poverty rates in 3 Scotland have tended to be lower ...
She stated—
The most likely end game for the fund is that, at some point in the future, a product will be bought from an insurance company using the remaining funds—to put it simplistically—to provide annuities for the remaining annuitants, to avoid [residual moneys being left in the fund after all the annuitants die...