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Are you economically better or worse off now due to corona?

Sheep_shear · 2020-05-29 11:38:55

How's your financial situation now compared to say in January? My wife retained her full salary wfh but due to stresses at my company I've had to forgo a pay rise I got at the start of the year, for three months. I didn't mind as I appreciated the company wasn't laying anyone off and we're doing their best. Taking into…

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#32 31-05-2020 7:09pm
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Our business is probably going to be down 80%+ this year so yeah pretty bad.

Luckily we have no major debts so hopefully should be able to ride it out but can't afford this to continue into 2021.

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#33 31-05-2020 7:40pm
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KindOfIrish wrote: »

Don't full yourself. Only very reach and top civil servants and politicians will be better off as a result of this "pandemic". Middle classes working in non government jobs will be destroyed. Prepare yourselves for 2-5 years of recession.

I'll "full" myself if I wish, thanks very much.

This thread asks contributors to say whether THEY are better or worse off due to Covid; any chance that you'd answer that question rather than boring us with your gloomy prognostication?

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