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Important - Time Limits for Furlough Claims

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You probably know about the (new) tight timescales for lodging a furlough claim with HMRC. Broadly, the claim has to be submitted within two weeks of the end of the previous calendar month (see below) unless there is a “reasonable excuse for failing to make a claim in time”. Yesterday, the government amended its guidance to give examples of what it meant by a ‘reasonable excuse’, summarised below.

These are the deadlines:
 

Claim for furlough days inClaim must be submitted by
 November 2020 14 December 2020
 December 2020 14 January 2021
 January 2021 15 February 2021
 February 2021 15 March 2021
 March 2021 14 April 2021

 
The HMRC guidance states that the following examples ‘may’ amount to a reasonable excuse for missing the deadline:

- your partner or another close relative died shortly before the claim deadline

- you had an unexpected stay in hospital that prevented you from dealing with your claim

- you had a serious or life-threatening illness, including Coronavirus related illnesses, which prevented you from making your claim (and no one else could claim for you)

- a period of self-isolation prevented you from making your claim (and no one else could make the claim for you)

- your computer or software failed just before or while you were preparing your online claim service issues with HMRC online services prevented you from making your claim

- a fire, flood or theft prevented you them from making your claim

- postal delays that you could not have predicted prevented you from making your claim

- delays related to a disability you have prevented you from making your claim

- a HMRC error prevented you from making your claim

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