Not been paid & cant afford to get to work

Blatchford

Marvel1 wrote: »

But not paying the OP on tie is the companies fault.

They are not sorting it out quick enough!

Is it? How do you know? Timesheet not submitted? Lost in the post? We have no idea whose fault it is. And if the poster was due to be paid on Friday then with offices closed on a weekend, and it's now Sunday... The point is not that you think the company should have put whatever went wrong faster. The point is that the poster needs to manage until it is paid. That is what needs to be managed. Blaming the employer, even if it is their fault, won't get the poster paid one bit faster and won't get them octet this hurdle again and again if something goes wrong. Employers aren't the only people who make late payments. So do benefits at times. Not even having bus fare to spare is a situation that is beyond problematic. The poster needs to work on that. Because life will theirs financial curveballs and you can't fall every time it does. Alternatively you could lose your job every time you don't have bus fare. That surely isn't any way to live.

Dakta

Why have you no savings to cover a situation like this ?

With all due respect, with a worrying proportion of the people in britain living on the breadline, how helpful really is this. Where income barely meets outgoings, a situation which applies to a lot of people, how should it be proposed that this be achieved?

I agree with the above that it might be more useful to worry about the problem at hand, I've had payment delays before for my own fault, and some of them not my fault too. The damage is the same and I do think a company should either explain why its late or make some effort in rectifying it rather than just waiting for the next run. I would, as soon as early as possible, get some clarification on why its been late and react accordingly

Telling people they should have savings, is not going to be particularly useful (even if the idea is sound)

Davy_Jones_II

It’s always useful to remind people without savings that they need some. Without them, as shown in this thread, a minor issue can quickly become life changing.

You have to concentrate on the things within your control, such as savings, as the things outside your control, well, they are outside your control.

It won’t help the OP this time, but it’s worth sorting it out for next time.

It must be a vanishingly small fraction of the population who could not find a way to put aside two pounds a week.

Kernel_Sanders

DCFC79 wrote: »

Why have you no savings to cover a situation like this ?

Spare cash in an account to cover such situations? Why do you not ask why the company doesn't appear to have such a facility?

CakeCrusader

A Saturday's an awkward day to get paid. Depending on your bank and when it was processed it may show on Monday, so please keep checking. You don't work in Bone Marche by any chance do you? It's not worth speaking to the DWP or ACAS until at least Monday.

POPPYOSCAR

Dakta wrote: »

With all due respect, with a worrying proportion of the people in britain living on the breadline, how helpful really is this. Where income barely meets outgoings, a situation which applies to a lot of people, how should it be proposed that this be achieved?

I agree with the above that it might be more useful to worry about the problem at hand, I've had payment delays before for my own fault, and some of them not my fault too. The damage is the same and I do think a company should either explain why its late or make some effort in rectifying it rather than just waiting for the next run. I would, as soon as early as possible, get some clarification on why its been late and react accordingly

Telling people they should have savings, is not going to be particularly useful (even if the idea is sound)

Personally I would rather have enough money to be able to go to work put aside, than booking a holiday for the weekend.

[Deleted User]

Can't see any recourse.

My employer allowed (forced) me to take leave when I didn't really want it and the day I went back to work dropped a bombshell the work meeting I thought was planned for Colchester was further away in Clacton (half way between pay day) when I'm a usual walk to work'er and they knew it. It was up to me to make my way there regardless of timing - on a week before my car had actually bust too. (No I'm not due fuel expenses back and I decided against posting that particular problem here knowing most likely I'd get rip to shreds...)

So after 2.5 years away from PDL I must say I was lucky to be granted a Satsuma (I chose small) loan to keep going with first repayment not for 6 weeks which was a big help.
However I have a handful of serious paid jobs on the go which appear more positive then anything previous (means a payrise on what I currently earn) that I'm hoping will come off.

Dakta

I don't disagree, but we don't really know the OP's situation, to tell them to save more might make sense to you and me and everyone else, but we're assuming its all possible and its not going to help the OP with the situation they are in, which is the one they are asking for advice about

74jax

Going forward, the op can save it would appear as they were going to go away this weekend. Therefore deposits would have been paid and money from the wage would have been used.

I suggest when paid, the money that would have been used for the weekend be put into a separate account as 'fall back' money. Its money that would have been used this weekend anyway.

I can't help on the getting paid now situation but that's my advice going forward.

Takmon

Dakta wrote: »

With all due respect, with a worrying proportion of the people in britain living on the breadline, how helpful really is this. Where income barely meets outgoings, a situation which applies to a lot of people, how should it be proposed that this be achieved?

I agree with the above that it might be more useful to worry about the problem at hand, I've had payment delays before for my own fault, and some of them not my fault too. The damage is the same and I do think a company should either explain why its late or make some effort in rectifying it rather than just waiting for the next run. I would, as soon as early as possible, get some clarification on why its been late and react accordingly

Telling people they should have savings, is not going to be particularly useful (even if the idea is sound)

Lots of people say their income only just meets their outgoings but when you actually ask them to tell you their exact outgoings and income they don't actually know. The vast majority of people who are struggling with money have never sat down and budgeted to see what money they actually have spare and where they are spending it.

The biggest cause of financial difficulty is lack of control of finances and lack of creating and sticking to a budget.