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How is it state aid when you have a contract.

Mate of mine rang the vehicle finance company and they were great, repayments suspended for three months, then review.

Another mate of mine rang the mortgage company, again three months suspended, then review.

So it's not all doom and gloom.

My message is if you have repayments then speak to those companies in the next few days.

Or go and work temporary for one of the supermarkets.

but I rent in the private sector, so don't know what might happen with that.

Down here the rental market, at the mo, isn't as lucrative as it has been. Thousands of students have all gone home early and left loads of places empty.

Fortunately the car is paid off, but I rent in the private sector, so don't know what might happen with that.

At a rough guess I'd say they'd suspend payments for a couple of months, but the problem is that it would have to be repaid later, so not like a mortgage or car repayments, where the loan can just be extended for the appropriate period


Are they recruiting?

In the same way the community bus scam has been deemed illegal state aid.

I would imagine somewhere they have contracts.

Are they recruiting?

Are you saying that school contracts are illegal?

There is also a large requirement for HGV delivery drivers so if you have a license as many hours as you can legally do available short term at quite a few distribution firms

Are you saying that school contracts are illegal?

As the finance minister was announcing the measures as part of an “unprecedented” package of government support for businesses through the pandemic, however, the European Union was reportedly moving to block certain aspects of his aid package.

According to Steven Swinford, the deputy political editor at The Times, the European Commission believes that, for example, offering business rates exemptions to specific sectors rather than all sectors violates state EU aid rules.

Britain technically left the EU at the end of January, but despite losing its representation in the European Council and European Parliament, very little has changed, with the country remaining subject to its laws, judges, and Free Movement migration regime — to the extent that the pandemic has not disrupted it — through a so-called “transition” period to the end of December, which may now be extended.

The Government has written to the EU calling for them to alter the state aid rules that ban ministers from handing over more than 200,000 euros (£185,000) to each business, the PA news agency understands.

Treasury officials have notified the European Commission that they intend to “disapply rules appertaining to state aid as they expect approval to be granted”, according to a Government source.

Councils have also been informed that they should assume the commission will grant the move and can begin informing businesses from which they collect rates.[…]

A Treasury spokesman said: “We have not asked the commission to scrap state aid rules.

“We welcome the commission’s proposed state aid flexibilities around Covid-19 and the work they are doing to react to the ongoing economic disruption.

“We believe there is a case for a specific, temporary and targeted business rates intervention, and we have applied to the commission for their approval of the measure.”

Personally I believe they should shut the tube and give all NSH and other emergency staff taxi vouchers.