Wednesday 30 September 2020

Seriously, can anybody explain this?

From the BBC:

Employed or self-employed people who test positive for the virus are required to isolate for 10 days, so those eligible for the extra money will get £130. But members of the household of someone who has tested positive, who must self-isolate for 14 days, will be entitled to up to £182, assuming they also qualify for the payment.

As regards the £13 a day, we should be paying (or at least offering) that to everybody as a Citizen's Income anyway.

7 comments:

Bayard said...

Well, if the disease lasts fourteen days, then it is assumed that, on average, those who test positive are already four days into having the disease when they are tested.

Mark Wadsworth said...

B... in which case members of that person's household were probably infected four days ago as well.

Lola said...

Explain it? Of course. We are subject to the whims and fancies of an 'idiocracy'.

Bayard said...

Mark, not if it was that person who infected them, which is more likely than that they infected together.

mombers said...

Will be interesting to see how many people manage to come off Universal Credit after this. Even with the punitive taper, you need to earn a lot of money before you're no longer eligible. So we may well have close to half the working age population on means tested benefits at enormous expense, great state intrusion and soul destroying marginal tax rates

Mark Wadsworth said...

L, that seems the most likely explanation.

B, too many assumptions.

M, time for UBI...

Penseivat said...

Slightly off topic, though from the BBC, tonight, some stupid woman called Sienna Rodgers on "The Papers" actually stated that George Floyd was murdered by a white Police officer and the moronic woman hosting the show did not challenge it. I wasn't aware that the trial had taken place and the Police officer had been found guilty. Yet another biased piece of garbage from the, hopefully soon to be defunded, Biased Broadcasting Service.