Hello. I'm sorry if this has been asked previously. As the grant from the Kickstart Scheme is apparently paid to a company directly, and not to the employee, I'm wondering if the Scheme is "allowed" from a job creation perspective for the T1E visa. It seems to me to be similar to furlough in that it's a grant paid to the company, and then passed on to the employee. With furloughed employees now able to be counted towards the job creation criteria for extension/ILR... is the Kickstart Scheme the same? I realise it's only for 25 hours per week, which would require a 5 hour increase to get to the required 30 hours, but still.
If true, that would mean you could hire 4 "Kickstarters" for 6 months each, and given the revised guidance that a "job" can be made up of multiple people doing different jobs across different months, you'd have a large portion of your wage bill covered in order to meet the criteria. Can that really be correct..?
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