Thanet council has issued an update on progress paying the covid Additional Restriction Grants (ARGs) to isle businesses.
One-off payments, on top of those already made, are due to be made tomorrow (January 29).
Smaller businesses, as defined by businesses not registered for business rates and for those that are, their premises rateable value is at or below £15,000, will have received:
A payment of £1,334 for the national lockdown from 5 November to 1 December
A payment of £3,378 which is a combination of grants for:
- local Tier 3 restrictions from 2 December to 18 December
- local Tier 4 restrictions from 19 December to 4 January
- the national lockdown from 5 January to 15 February.
A further one-off payment of £4,000 will be made by Friday this week. Please allow a short time for this to clear in accounts.
Medium-sized businesses, as defined by businesses not registered for business rates and for those that are, their premises rateable value is above £15,000 but below £51,000, they will have received:
A payment of £2,000 for the national lockdown from 5 November to 1 December
A payment of £5,064 which is a combination of grants for:
- local Tier 3 restrictions from 2 December to 18 December
- local Tier 4 restrictions from 19 December to 4 January
- the national lockdown from 5 January to 15 February.
A further one-off payment of £6,000 will be made by Friday this week.
For larger businesses, as defined by businesses not registered for business rates and for those that are, their premises rateable value is above £51,000, they will have received:
A payment of £3,000 for the national lockdown from 5 November to 1 December
A payment of £7,596 which is a combination of grants for:
- local Tier 3 restrictions from 2 December to 18 December
- local Tier 4 restrictions from 19 December to 4 January
- the national lockdown from 5 January to 15 February.
A further one-off payment of £9,000 will be made by Friday this week.
Thanet council is also working through some outstanding ARG applications.
Has TDC got rigorous proceedures in place to stop the businesses who have remained open from claiming sums of money that was meant to be for those who closed, thus obeying the regulations? Will TDC be able to claim it back from those who have been found to have cheated?
Totally agree – I have heard reliable stories of individual traders claiming funds while continuing business as usual – plumbers, carpet fitters and general builders.
Why are TDC saying that Tier 3 grants and the Jan lockdown grants have already been paid? I am still fighting for mine. And the additional £4k by this Friday this seems ambitious