Employers will have to contribute more to the job support scheme before it is phased out in September.
Furlough will be wound down further from Sunday as the government asks employers to make a bigger contribution to the wage support scheme.
She realised she wanted a less stressful job and to work in charity, and by February she had managed to find a role working at a local shelter for young homeless people - a job she loves. "Without the furlough scheme I would have to have let people go, I just would not have managed," she said. "They knew from the outset that the mission was to get them all back together at the end, and to make sure that we just got through this," she added.
At the same time, Mr Wilson said, the unemployment rate has been broadly flat in recent months - suggesting that fears of a "rush of redundancies" caused by furlough being phased out have been unfounded.
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