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Customers keep their distance while waiting in a queue outside a bank in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Britain has received more than 1.5 million new claims for welfare payments since mid-March, when the government began asking people to avoid unnecessary social contact to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the government said on Tuesday (21 April), writes William Schomberg.

The increase from last week’s figure of about 1.4 million new claims for Universal Credit benefits represented a slowing from a surge last month but still suggests the country is on course for a jump in unemployment.

Universal Credit benefits are paid to people in work as well as those who have lost their jobs.

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