Time Limits for Furlough Claims

Please be aware that there are new tighter timescales for lodging claims for Furlough with the HMRC.

Claims now need to be made within 2 weeks of the end of the previous calendar month unless of course there is a reasonable excuse for failing to make a claim within this timeframe.

The deadlines look like this:

So what are likely to be reasonable excuses?

• Your partners or another close relative died shortly before the claim deadline.
• You had an unexpected stay in hospital that prevented you from dealing with your claim.
• You had a serious of life-threatening illness, including Coronavirus related illnesses which prevented you from making your claim (and no one else could claim for you).
• A period of self-isolation prevented you from making your claim (and no one else could make the claim for you.)
• You computer of software failed just before or while you were preparing your online claim service issues with HMRC online services prevented you from making your claim
• A fire, flood of theft prevented you from making your claim.
• Postal delays that you could not have predicted prevented you from making your claim .
• Delays related to a disability which have prevented you from making your claim.
• A HMRC error prevented you from making your claim.