Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailA hotline for former military personnel is getting nearly 100 calls a day after reopening. Ministers faced a backlash after the Veterans UK helpline was closed when MoD staff began working remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Now it has emerged the service answered 450 calls in just five days after reopening. (Image: Newcastle Chronicle)“There was no good reason why the telephone service could not be re-directed to a work from home setting. This is just another example of the Government letting down veterans and families in their time of need.”A Veterans UK spokesman said the organisation “had to adapt its delivery of support during the Covid lockdown”.

Source: Daily Mirror June 20, 2020 20:26 UTC