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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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  • I can't really add much more in the way of advice, except there are legal and financial advocates for Autistic people in my local authority. I don't know much about your whereabouts except you are in Yorkshire, I think I recall you saying it in a photo thread.

    https://www.cloverleaf-advocacy.co.uk

    https://advonet.org.uk

    http://www.nyadvocacy.org

    I Googled around and these were a few. Yorkshire seems to have a few.

    As for the suicide stuff, don't. It's a clichè but things can change in a matter of days. A minute of madness can be the end of everything and things might amount to nothing bad. I know people that have done it and the things they were going through could have been resolved. I'm not going to lie, but I tried it once myself. I didn't know what was wrong and my senses became unbearable, I saw no way out. I was scared that I might be going mad. Luckily I woke up alive. I shouldn't have been but I was. I was scared of the unknown. I decided to face it head on and find out what was wrong. Try and find some help with it all, and take the uncertainty and worry away.

    I don't mean to blather on about myself, the point I'm trying to make is, it wasn't the things that had happened that got to me, it was the things that hadn't happened yet, and might not anyway. Uncertainty is scary, but you aren't certain of anything yet. This could all be smoothed out, and you being sacked might lead to something better. Hope and fear come from the same place, they are just opposite sides of the same coin. Choose hope, mate.

    All the best, Cloudy.

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  • I can't really add much more in the way of advice, except there are legal and financial advocates for Autistic people in my local authority. I don't know much about your whereabouts except you are in Yorkshire, I think I recall you saying it in a photo thread.

    https://www.cloverleaf-advocacy.co.uk

    https://advonet.org.uk

    http://www.nyadvocacy.org

    I Googled around and these were a few. Yorkshire seems to have a few.

    As for the suicide stuff, don't. It's a clichè but things can change in a matter of days. A minute of madness can be the end of everything and things might amount to nothing bad. I know people that have done it and the things they were going through could have been resolved. I'm not going to lie, but I tried it once myself. I didn't know what was wrong and my senses became unbearable, I saw no way out. I was scared that I might be going mad. Luckily I woke up alive. I shouldn't have been but I was. I was scared of the unknown. I decided to face it head on and find out what was wrong. Try and find some help with it all, and take the uncertainty and worry away.

    I don't mean to blather on about myself, the point I'm trying to make is, it wasn't the things that had happened that got to me, it was the things that hadn't happened yet, and might not anyway. Uncertainty is scary, but you aren't certain of anything yet. This could all be smoothed out, and you being sacked might lead to something better. Hope and fear come from the same place, they are just opposite sides of the same coin. Choose hope, mate.

    All the best, Cloudy.

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  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    You said you would face eviction if you can't pay your rent, are you in social housing ie a housing association or local authority? Or private rented. As they both have to follow strict rules before they can evict. First they must serve notice seeking possession which give the grounds they are applying under. This gives you 6 weeks before they are even allowed to do anything. Then they must apply for eviction to the court you can argue it and and in most cases the court will not immediately grant eviction they issue a suspended possession order meaning that as long as you make future payments and an agreed amount towards arrears then you keep your home as soon as the arrears are paid the order becomes void ( I got stuck with this thanks to housing benefit)  this was last June and I'm still in my home. 

    But before it gets to that speak to your landlord they may well be willing to make an arrangement with you. And some housing associations actually have trained benefits advisors who can talk to universal credit on your behalf 

    Please hang in there I know it's daunting and ridiculously stressful but it can be overcome