"The UK had the same problem" The UK doesn't have the same problem. Our payments are entirely electronic, and there is a direct pipe from HM Treasury to every

"The UK had the same problem" The UK doesn't have the same problem. Our payments are entirely electronic, and there is a direct pipe from HM Treasury to every person with a Sterling bank account. The choice to run the furlough scheme via PAYE was political, not technological. Our electronic transfer system is sufficiently sophisticated that the government can operate on a commercial bank account and have the money automatically transferred from a Contra account at the Bank of England. The UK has some of the finest electronic banking facilities in the world.