Notice Pay Query

tm1985

Hi,
I have just been made redundant after 3 years of service but while we were in the hands of the administrators got offered and accepted another job. My current company was about to be sold so the administrator said she would make me redundant the day before they signed so I got my redundancy pay.

I am also entitled to 3 weeks notice pay which, would finish a few days before my new job starts. My question is do I still have to go and claim job seekers during this time or does dwp accept a letter from a new company so they wont deduct it from my notice pay anyway as the admins said they do even if you don't claim for it

I hope that makes sense

Thanks

LittleVoice

You do not HAVE TO claim Job seekers allowance at all. Will you be seeking another full-time job in the "few days" between when your notice expires and you start the job you have already found?

Is the "notice pay" actually "pay in lieu of notice", ie you are not actually working? If it is PILON then there isn't a question of your notice running out, you aren't getting notice.

SarEl

Assuming that the redundancy pay is coming from the RPS you may not get anything! If the company is to be sold then there is no reason to assume that you are redundant at all because TUPE should apply. The RPS are quite likely to question this - they do not pay out tax payers money for no reason. Simply because a company goes into administration and redundancy notices are issued does not mean that employees are actually redundant. In this case it would appear that the sale of the company and the TUPE has occurred before the redundancy notices expired, and it would be unlawful for the new employer to simply "make you redundant" - there is a process they would have to go through and justify. The administrator should not have pre-empted this (assuming that the new employer intended to make any redundancies). If the administrator intends to pay redundancies from the assets / proceeds of the sale then that is their decision - but it is one that is incorrect in law and is open to challenge.