Submitted on Saturday 14th March 2020
Rejected on Friday 20th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce an Emergency Grant to all individuals affected by Corona Virus.
Introduce an Emergency Grant to financially support those who are affected by the Corona Virus, particularly the elderly, the disabled, the homeless and the vulnerable.
Poverty kills. We have seen the effects of this through the brutal cuts of the last ten years of austerity. Inequality ruins communities and panic buying particularly impacts those on a low income who cannot afford to bulk buy in advance.
Please support the most vulnerable in society by taking away the bureaucracy and humiliation of filling out 'benefit' claims when there is a global pandemic. Please act now to save lives.
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NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public
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