All shoppers could receive £500 in new voucher scheme to 'save the high street'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukMirror. "The voucher scheme can target the parts of the economy where the problems are – bricks and mortar consumption in shops and restaurants, rather than online sales – and recognises the different impact of the crisis on poor and rich families," the report said.It said the money would be delivered as vouchers, instead of cash, to encourage people to 'spend not save'."The Foundation notes that cash transfers risk being simply being saved by higher income households, who are already boosting their balance sheets through ’enforced savings’," the report said.If introduced in the UK, the Resolution Foundations says the vouchers would equate to £500 an adult and £250 a child.Households would then be given a time limit to spend them - such as.
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