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Sacked and underpaid. Help. Feeling suicidal

Robert124

I mentioned previously that I was fired unfairly on the 29th August.

And now the payment problems between my previous employer and Universal Credit!!!

Universal credit will in theory top up my earnings.  And on their letters they state my 'take home pay' and how it affects the amount they will pay in a particular month.

But my previous employer is reporting 'theoretical earnings'.  Not my actual take home pay.

In Sept, I received a total final pay off from my ex employer of £515.88.  into my bank account.  My UC letter states that my take home pay was £896.34.  As a result my UC payment is very low and my council tax benefit has been stopped because my pay is over the threshold.

I never received a pay slip for sept 2018.

However my ex employer has just sent me a final payslip for October 2018.

The numbers on the payslip do add up.  I just don't understand all the details.  I did ring the payroll department.  But they gave me the runaround.

  1. I have highlighted in red the 515.88 that was actually paid.  And the 896.34 payment that was recalled and never made.  But reported to Universal  Credit.  I'mt sure why one is a positive deduction and the other a negative deduction.

As for the payments. I understand the pay in lieu of notice.  And the holiday pay.  But why is basic pay a negative payment .  And what and why is non-offset SSP pay a negative payment?

Finally, over the phone they said that earnings of £327 or was it £527.  Were being reported to UC for October .

But I was fired on the 29 August.  And I asked. And they confirmed that they were actually making NO payment to me in October.

Help.   Feeling suicidal!!!!Skull

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  • in reply to Robert124

    I believe if you are facing eviction, Firstlyl Do not just pack up and go, That will be classed by the Local authority as making yourself Homeless and they are then under no duty to help you further. You Must stay where you are. Your Landlord may not like it,  but he will have to get a court order to get you out., I am certain you will want to try and avoid this,  but you must stay put. and owe the rent. or part of it if you cannot pay it all. That will always show good faith.  A Court order is not the end of the world, The Magistrate may make an order you can afford to pay.

    You will also need to see somebody in the Local Council because of your impending being made homeless. My advice get a small note book to write down peoples names and times and what they say. when you speak to them,  always ask for their name or number if on the phone, and if you don't understand ask them to spell it. or repeat it , if it is £327 or £527etc

    You are a support worker. Are you in any way on the Autistic Spectrum? If so As well as CAB your No 1 job. go contact to your local Council's Adult services, but only if you can be classed as needing special help. 

    Martian Tom says go to the CAB somewhere local Tomorrow if you can. 

    Google "Benefit Advice Centre Your town" and contact them You may have to telephone early or join a queue early.

    You left your employment on Wednesday 29th August and walked out of their door. Your Pay Slip is dated Sunday 16th  September. 

    You were paid £323.75 in Lieu of Notice as from the 29th August being the date you say, you were fired. That means you left your employment on that day and to get rid of you they paid you instead of you working the notice period they were entitled to give you. or you give them  as in your contract of employment.That Payment in lieu of notice should have been free of Income Tax and represents 37hrs Pay. from the 29th August so from Wednesday 5th September You have been unemployed, as they have paid you up to that date. But you could have worked somewhere from the 30th August. You could have signed on unemployed then.

    You were owed apparently 60.25 hrs for Holiday Pay this is the £527.19 shown on the slip. so this will take you being considered on holiday until 15th September.

    At best You were paid for your holiday pay up to and including Saturday 15th September for your Holiday pay so on Saturday 15th September you had nothing, No more money left as you had been on holiday and spent it.  You have had no income due to you from the 15th September onwards. 

    So on the 29th August they should have given you £840.94 and said god bye.They also should have given you a P45 when you left on the 29 th August because that document is needed for your next employer which could have been on the next day. or even that same day. Where is your P 45? That will also count as your P60 from that employer.

    Were you off work sick before you were fired. Up until the 29th of August to accrue 60.25 hours of holiday pay of 60hrs would take about 12 weeks. 

    Did you start a new employment after they had fired you. with the same employer because they needed you. Where is your Pay slip for the previous period? Get a copy if you have not got one, It will help those that try and understand your previous employers calculations.  

    You Need Your P45, Your earlier Payslip to help make sense of the latest. You need a copy of your payments into your bank if paid direct.

    Good luck.

  • in reply to Robert124

    Just logged on,,,,Hey Robert this can and will be sorted, 

    You need help to decipher the wage slip first, I receive different slips to you, I have never made sense of them, ok they have certain key points I can see, the hourly rate, bonus, total hours, but there are figures that elude me, some time ago now we had slips which stated “ school bonus?”. They soon corrected it but smacked of inadequacy,,,, if we don’t hand in our time sheets we get flat rate, ok so fair enough, but when that happens and they then rebalance in the following week it is even harder to work out wether I paid more tax due to the error or the right amount.

     And so get advice, someone who can work out what it all means, it is different to a usual slip due to the circumstances as it rounds up certain figures, projects expected earnings, 

    Please don’t give up, 

    You know how much we like you, you give so much to us all, and your pictures are always such a pleasure to see, they take me on the journey with you, they really do, I often feel I am right by your side, you capture the feeling of each place, you have a gift for that, I have said it many times before.

     Hang in there, don’t let the bastards grind you down, 

    I like you Robert and so do many here, your polite and very good at helping so many others, you do it because you care, well we care for you. It is very quite tonight by the looks of the threads, I myself only just popped in, 

    I am sure one of us will be able to help in some way, we stick together when things get tough. 

    Thinking of you, x()x()x()x