The money-saving expert outlined the big problems the UK is facing from employers regarding the furlough payment scheme. Mr Lewis told the BBC that many companies are not paying their employees when morally they should.

Mr Lewis said: "This is the biggest problem we are facing as a society at the moment, I am trying to get a call to the Chancellor on it.

"There are two.

"What has happened is the state has made companies the gatekeeper for this new form of welfare, the furlough protection scheme.

"Many companies are not paying what I believe morally they should.

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"The first is that they think they are doing something wrong by putting companies on furlough because we have been trained for years that getting welfare is something we want people to jump through the hoops to see if they are qualified otherwise we live in a self-supporting world.

"That has changed."

He continued: "This new scheme is about trying to give everyone a minimum amount of income, a survival income until we get out of the other side of this and pumping the economy.

"So my big message to employers out there is furlough if you can if somebody can’t work.

"It is your discretion.

"The state is not saying retrench, it is saying let’s help as many people as possible.

"You have the moral responsibility.

"The second problem is because the furlough money won’t come until the end of this month companies are having to face their own cash flow issues."

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