£24 a month Expenses

In the UK, it seems that if you are working at home, you can reclaim around £24 expenses from the government.

Due to Coronavirus, we are working at home, when we would otherwise be working in an office.

A couple of my colleagues were discussing how they are going to claim this money. I reckon, these people are on £35k+ salary, and I reckon they probably save money by being at home. They don’t have to pay for fuel, and save 30-60 mins travel time per day.

You may be thinking: if they are entitled to it and their costs really have gone up, then fair enough.

However, think of the current situation we live in. 

There’s all those people that have lost their jobs and are struggling to find new ones, self employed people that have had to close their business, all those people unable to work due to being ill, or isolating as a precaution. I was listening to the news on LBC Radio, and they reckoned “1 in 10 are expected to be unemployed”.

Then these guys are there in their privileged jobs, on high salary (compared to many), and can happily work at home, then demanding an extra £24 from the government which doesn’t mean much to them, but means quite a bit to someone else.

No doubt they are the same people that say “the NHS needs more money”, but are then claiming money they don’t need from the government. If your costs have gone up, and you want to claim, see the advice by Martin Lewis