edders23 wrote:
This will all be borrowed money anyway my contention is that there will be 5 million applications to be individually vetted so either they will need every inland revenue staff member working 24/7 on it or it will take a lot longer than 2 weeks.
there may well be a few getting payments in June but I am being realistic and assuming it will take 3 months to deal with the numbers
Suspect a lot of the legwork being done just now behind the scenes to get it all up and running, so that once applications are made the money will be paid out pretty quickly.
Think I read earlier on that 5,000 Department of Work and Pensions staff were seconded to HMRC to deal with all the various schemes?
As Grandad says, if someone is eligible then it'll just be a number-crunching exercise for the vast majority of cases using info that will already be in the HMRC database, and it'll be largely automated.
But, as I keep on saying, apart from the basic number crunching the main thing that could take up HMRC staff's time is the question about losing profit due to Covid-19. Pretty obvious for the vast majority, but HMRC staff won't necessarily look at it the same way, so they may ask some applicants to demonstrate this in one way or another.
Don't know how applicants will be selected for that - maybe just random, or due to these mysterious 'risk assessment' factors
But I suspect the vast majority will just be rubber-stamped. And any questions will be asked further down the line
But just three weeks now or whatever until the application process goes online, so all will be revealed then.