Hospital and care employees are to be given a one-off fee of £500 to thank them for his or her "extraordinary service" in 2020.In her speech to the
Hospital and care employees are to be given a one-off fee of £500 to thank them for his or her “extraordinary service” in 2020.
In her speech to the SNP convention, celebration chief Nicola Sturgeon stated these on the “sharpest finish of Covid trauma” deserved recognition now.
The primary minister urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make use of the UK authorities’s powers to make sure the funds have been tax-free.
A spokesperson from HM Treasury responded by saying: “The earnings tax on these funds is paid to Scotland, not Westminster – and the Scottish authorities has the powers and funding to gross up the fee if it needs.”
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