Calling DWP Band C's & Band B TDA's

atomicsheep

Question:

What is the lowest rate that band C's are on presently?

Also when on TDA do you get the full rate of the band you are training towards.

thanks in advance

ukdickie31

Band C rate is about £19500 and TDA is paid at either your current salary +£10% or the band C minimum, whichever is the greater.

hanny83_2

Sorry, what's TDA? I'm grade C in Bucks and on around 22k but that's because it's a Special Pay Location. london is a bit more. Originally from Norfolk where the starting salary for grade C is about £19,600 or there abouts. Think that's the normal national salary.

ukdickie31

TDA - temporary Duties Allowance.. old school TP, acting Up etc etc.

Salary minumum is £19,650 for Band C

hanny83_2

Ahh sorry, so many acronyms!!

atomicsheep

thanks guys I saw on intranet the amounts but thought they were wrong.

Does anyone know how you are meant to progress towards max these days? they aways seem to move the goal posts!

-BA-

If it's anything like the company I work in, then a letter from God should suffice......or have a face that fits.

oldmotherreilly

atomic sheep, as far as I know you just get a little more each year until you reach the maximum-like the old pay scales. With TDA-if you are training you don't get this do you, as the person who is in the job is still being paid. I know that for TDA for Band D, the deputy manager only gets the payment if the actual manager is on annual leave-if they act up just because the manager is at a meeting all day, they don't get paid anything extra. Does that make sense?

hanny83_2

When the bands go up every year that's just the wages going up with inflation I think so that the lower earnings will also go up if you get me. I've spoken to colleagues that have been here over 10 years and still haven't reached the highest earnings. I think depending on your appraisals/PDAs/SASis/interim reviews, if you've done well then it goes up a bit but only by a couple of hundred pounds.

singlehouseholder

atomicsheep wrote: »

thanks guys I saw on intranet the amounts but thought they were wrong.

Does anyone know how you are meant to progress towards max these days? they aways seem to move the goal posts!

haha, its a joke isn't it, progressing to max, thats like in the olden days when you were moved up a spine point, gone are those days, we're lucky to get a "pay rise"!

atomicsheep

haha too true..


Any one here been on the TDA CLDM job recent?? or a full CLDM