LONDON- About 70% of people who apply for financial support to self-isolate due to Covid-19 are rejected, according to local authority data.

Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the TUC, said the “patchy” and “paltry” approach to reimbursing people’s lost earnings was forcing people to choose between “doing the right thing and being plunged into hardship”.

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