MONEY Saving expert Martin Lewis has joined 225 MPs at Westminster today to call on the Treasury to help some three million people who have been excluded from the Government’s financial support so far during the coronavirus crisis.

An All-Parliamentary Group has been set up alongside the group ExcludedUK, which represents the vast swathe of tax payers in the country who say they feel ’betrayed, abandoned and desparate’ after finding themselves ineligible for any of the grants or support schemes on offer.

’ExcludedUK maintains that there is no rationale or fair justification for these exclusions and that the Treasury’s repeated assertions that everyone has been or can be helped in some way is simply not the case,’ said a spokesperson.

’The Chancellor’s reasons - the need to avoid complexity, implementing measures at pace and implying such exclusions were needed to combat fraud - are simply not acceptable.’

Those affected come from every walk of life, says ExcludedUK, and include those who were starting a new job as lockdown began, those who have set up a new business and people with small businesses, people who earn their living through a combination of PAYE and self-employment, those whose parental leave fell at a certain time, those caught out by pension payments, redundancy payments, those shielding and more.

’From beauticians, to dog groomers, charity workers, construction workers, hairdressers, electricians, plumbers, nurses, drama/music/dance teachers, arts and media professionals, lawyers, dentists, vets, those in marketing, events, hospitality, the list goes on,’ said ExcludedUK.

’We call on the Treasury to implement further measures to fill these gaps for the many UK taxpayers who have received no meaningful government Covid-19 support.

’As the Treasury Committee has stated, “hundreds of thousands of individuals are suffering financial hardship through no fault of their own”.

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to take questions from the Treasury Committee this afternoon.