UK wage subsidy scheme costing 8 billion pounds a month - Sunak
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LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak said the government's coronavirus jobs retention scheme was costing about 8 billion pounds ($9.8 billion) a month but the final costs were hard to estimate because it depended on take-up."This is costing in the run rate of around 8 billion pounds per month at the moment but that will depend on the ultimate take-up," Sunak told BBC television in an interview. Earlier he announced a four-month extension of the plan - under which the..