Employers are allowed to rehire workers who had left their company in order to furlough them.
If an employee quit their job - or was made redundant - after February 28, their employer can rehire them in order to make them eligible for government support.
The government is offering to pay 80 per cent of workers' usual earnings through the Coronavirus Job Rentention Scheme, meaning that they can be furloughed rather than laid off from their place of work.
Any company with a payroll scheme is able to sign up to get help paying its employees.
Anybody who started a job after February 28 is not eligible for the scheme.
If you were made redundant after February 28, you can be put on furlough if your employer rehires you.
Money and savings expert Martin Lewis confirmed that the same goes for anybody who quit a job after February 28 too.
He posted on his Facebook page: "If you left a job after 28 Feb, that old employer can rehire you to furlough you. So if needed ask.
"We knew this worked for those made redundant, but Treasury has just confirmed to us, this is allowed for those who left voluntarily (e.g. to start new job)."
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will run until at least June 1 2020.
You may be at risk of losing your job if your employer asks you to go on furlough and you refuse.
