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Senior reps from HMRC appeared before parliamentary select committee on 8 April and provided further information in relation to CJRS and claims to be made under the online portal.
The below is a summary of the information provided by HMRC and is subject to change;
- The online portal will be open for employers to use on 20 April 2020.
- Live testing started yesterday
- HMRC are confident that they can cope with a large volume of claims and have conducted tests for 450,000 applications per hour.
Once the system is up and running it is anticipated that the first payments should be made within 4-6 working days of the submission. So, if the system goes live on the current proposed date of 20 April 2020 then initial payments should be received in and around 30 April 2020.
A guidance document is being produced (within the week) in order to get employers ready to submit by 20 April 2020. Please watch the Coronavirus Resource Hub for further information on this.
A further update dated 17 April can be found here.