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Cash boost for Birmingham cabbies hit by Covid pandemic amid reports of £1,000 grant

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Birmingham City Council has reportedly agreed to a one-off grant to licensed taxi drivers who live in the city

Licenced taxi drivers hit by the Covid pandemic are reportedly set for a £1,000 cash boost.

Birmingham City Council has reportedly agreed to give one-off grants of to all Birmingham licensed drivers who live in the city.

Private Hire and Taxi Monthly tweeted: "BREAKING NEWS: £1000 GRANT FOR BIRMINGHAM LICENSED DRIVERS. Birmingham CC has agreed to a one-off grant of £1k to all Birmingham residents who are full time Birmingham licensed drivers."

BirminghamLive contacted Birmingham City Council to ask the authority to confirm plans for the £1,000 grants.

A spokeswoman said: "At present the teams are currently working on the plans for this."

The spokeswoman pointed to a tweet from council leader, Coun Ian Ward.

He tweeted: "We know how hard the last year has been and I hope to have an announcement soon of financial support for Birmingham’s taxi drivers."

Grants of up to £1,500 were handed out to taxi drivers in Scotland recently to help cabbies affected by the pandemic.

Local authorities were set to approach an estimated 38,000 private hire and taxi drivers inviting them to claim a grant to help with fixed costs, boosting the support from other funding for loss of income available through the Scottish and UK Governments.

So if that's correct then those living over the border won't be eligible. That'll go down well.

And *full-time* drivers only? Wonder how they'll decide that, particularly in the taxi trade

None of that was relevant for the Scottish grants - all you needed was a badge.

How on earth are they going to decide on full time?

20 hours a week, 30, 40, 50 etc?

And how many of those drivers are actually working full time now or have been for the last 12 months.

And how many pen pushers is it going to need to process all the information?

And the nonsense about not living in Birmingham?

Will the council not give a higher rate grant to a sweet shop owner who lives outside of the area?

Or a multinational business that operates locally but has their head office is 100s of miles away.

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I think you will find that they will not be paying anyone who is not driving a cab or car now .......you ask them for the reg of the car they are working and lic no

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Full time is defined as your only occupation has nothing to do with the hours worked.

Think there's a bit more to it than that.

I mean, someone may have only one job, but work 15 hours per week. You could hardly call them full-time.

Or someone works 40 hours in an office, but 16 hours on the taxis at the weekend. You couldn't really say they don't have a full-time job office job.

Yep there's always vultures ........But when the sh*t hits the fan the full time driver has to pick up the pieces

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

From the gov.uk website ;
'A part-time worker is someone who works fewer hours than a full-time worker. There is no specific number of hours that makes someone full or part-time, but a full-time worker will usually work 35 hours or more a week.'

one job driving a taxi is full time.............two jobs is part time

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!