Increasing salary sacrifice before maternity

Alexland

User6565 wrote: »

Normally I salary sacrifice 10% of my salary and my employer contributes 10%. While on mat leave I paid the 10% of whatever I was earning until I hit SMP and I paid in 0. My employer carried on paying their usual contribution regardless of my actual salary until I came back.

Do you mean they paid their 10% or the full 20% including your salary sacrifice which they couldn't deduct from your SMP in the later months?

Alex

Alexland

_shel wrote: »

They no longer have to pay childcare vouchers as part of your maternity.

Even if they are providing them under salary sacrifice - if so please can you share a link describing why not?

Alex

unforeseen

Alexland wrote: »

Even if they are providing them under salary sacrifice - if so please can you share a link describing why not?

Alex

http://www.tax-free-childcare.info/2016/05/childcare-vouchers-during-maternity-leave/

Alexland

unforeseen wrote: »

http://www.tax-free-childcare.info/2016/05/childcare-vouchers-during-maternity-leave/

Thank you that 2016 judgement against previous HMRC guidance was the information I was missing so applying the same logic to pension benefits the employer wouldn't be required to maintain the employee sacrificed proportion of the pension contribution where there was insufficient pay that they could make deductions from. Oh well it did seem too good to be true.

Alex

User6565

Just the 10% and not the 20% but I still feel that was quite good. I’ve had a letter to say my childcare vouchers will be paid so I suspect quite a few places will continue as they were despite the ruling.

Alexland

User6565 wrote: »

Just the 10% and not the 20% but I still feel that was quite good.

Yeah that's what my wife had last time. Maybe it's just greed but I didn't think that was very good.

Alex