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Paper delivery boys and girls get furloughed

Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
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  • bradders1983
    bradders1983 Posts: 5,684 Forumite
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    edited 12 April 2020 at 5:11PM
    No, because he probably wont be on the payroll through PAYE as £12 a week is nowhere near the threshold.

    Why not pay him the £9.60 "furlough money" yourself as a stop gap.
  • sliphi
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    edited 12 April 2020 at 5:46PM
    noahgriff said:
    Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
    I doubt he's paid through PAYE, is he?

    Why has your son's paper round been suspended?
    Better that he goes to deliver to 100 houses, than 100 people go to the shop daily to collect their newspaper.

    #StayHome,SaveLives
  • noahgriff
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    edited 12 April 2020 at 5:51PM
    sliphi said:
    noahgriff said:
    Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
    I doubt he's paid through PAYE, is he?

    Why has your son's paper round been suspended?
    Better that he goes to deliver to 100 houses, than 100 people go to the shop daily to collect their newspaper.

    #StayHome,SaveLives
    sliphi said:
    noahgriff said:
    Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
    I doubt he's paid through PAYE, is he?

    Why has your son's paper round been suspended?
    Better that he goes to deliver to 100 houses, than 100 people go to the shop daily to collect their newspaper.

    He delivers for a free paper. He does 208 papers a week. He gets paid every 2 weeks and wage varies each week due to leaflets and size of paper (surprisingly). The free paper is produced by a regional newspaper company. 
    I only received a phone call from the lady who drops the papers round saying they are suspending the paper due to the crisis and this was the day after the lockdown was announced. 
  • Andy_L
    Andy_L Posts: 13,034 Forumite
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    edited 12 April 2020 at 5:53PM
    sliphi said:
    noahgriff said:
    Hey, My son's paper round was suspended amid the crisis but his wage has also been suspended, he usually gets £12 a week but now he gets nothing..... Should his paper company furlough him?
    I doubt he's paid through PAYE, is he?

    Why has your son's paper round been suspended?
    Better that he goes to deliver to 100 houses, than 100 people go to the shop daily to collect their newspaper.

    #StayHome,SaveLives
    ISTR hearing the radio that (some/all?) newspapers were about to suspend print editions and go purely online
  • No, because he probably wont be on the payroll through PAYE as £12 a week is nowhere near the threshold.

    Why not pay him the £9.60 "furlough money" yourself as a stop gap.
    I was just wondering if he should be furloughed or not first. He gets paid into the bank every 2 weeks, the payment changes every 2 week due to leaflets and thickness of paper. 
  • bradders1983
    bradders1983 Posts: 5,684 Forumite
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    edited 12 April 2020 at 5:55PM
    From the sounds of the OPs second post, he has no chance at all at getting his son furloughed anyway, I did a paper round in exactly the same way when I was a teenager and I was paid by a brown envelope every Friday in cash when the papers and leaflets got dumped outside the house. No payslip and certainly not through PAYE.


  • From the sounds of the OPs second post, he has no chance at all at getting his son furloughed anyway, I did a paper round in exactly the same way when I was a teenager and I was paid by a brown envelope every Friday in cash when the papers and leaflets got dumped outside the house. No payslip and certainly not through PAYE.


    He gets a payslip (Whenever it turns up) but it doesn't look that official. 
  • bradders1983
    bradders1983 Posts: 5,684 Forumite
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    The fact its £12 a week means he wont be on any payroll system.
  • The fact its £12 a week means he wont be on any payroll system.
    I don't know.... It isn't a little shop or anything, it's an actual paper delivery agency Midland News Association
  • bradders1983
    bradders1983 Posts: 5,684 Forumite
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    edited 12 April 2020 at 6:05PM
    They wont have to put him on a PAYE payroll for those amounts though.

    The company I worked for when I was a teenager produced all the newspapers in Manchester, hardly a tinpot outfit. 
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