Salary sacrifice and Universal Credits

later

Hi, I get universal credits, and work full time. But I was looking at a salary sacrifice scheme to get a bicycle, and was wondering if there was a calculator anywhere, or a rule I could use, to find out how it affects UC, please?

huckster

Speak to your companies payroll about how they report your data to HMRC. In regard to the net amount reported for DWP benefit purposes, how does this salary sacrifice affect this ?

UC won't know about this. They simply receive the data your employers send to HMRC. So no calculator or rule related to UC. It will be HMRC payroll rules that is the issue here.

Icequeen99

huckster wrote: »

Speak to your companies payroll about how they report your data to HMRC. In regard to the net amount reported for DWP benefit purposes, how does this salary sacrifice affect this ?

UC won't know about this. They simply receive the data your employers send to HMRC. So no calculator or rule related to UC. It will be HMRC payroll rules that is the issue here.

Whilst that is correct in terms of the mechanism - the UC legislation defines income. The RTI reporting doesn't override that. For example, you can deduct unreimbursed work expenses from your UC income - that isn't in the RTI feed but it is in the UC legislation.

IQ