Keep calm and carry on....

badmemory

Re P45 ... You should get a tax rebate due to the P45 but then expect a claw back of a small amount (c 20% of what you received in JSA) in a couple of months when the JSA gets added to your taxable income.

South_coast

Thank you both.

I will watch the wage slips like a hawk 🤣!

South_coast

Er, well I have been paid.... About 9x what I might feasibly have expected it to be 🤣! Think there must be a tax rebate in there somewhere, as what they've paid me is more than I'll be earning in a full month. Think I need to see a wage slip 🤣!

I've topped the 10% 04/2022 fund back up to the full amount and stashed the rest in an account I've named "Surprise money" until I can work it out....

caeler

What a nice surprise! I hope it is all very much in your favour and not an error.  Hopefully seeing your wage slip today will confirm that so you can decide where to put it!  

Grogged

Good news on them paying you!
I'm sure like me you know some people who would have already spent their suprise money... 😕
Hopefully not an error and you'll be money plotting planning this weekend!

newgirly

That’s great sc, hopefully it’s all correct 🙂

coldcazzie

Got everything crossed that that money is rightfully yours!

badmemory

As long as you keep in mind the tax still due on your JSA, that should be 20% on all of it.  Sorry to be the resident wet blanket!

Busy_Mee

Glad that you are enjoying the new job SC. Is there any opportunity to work from home a day or two or week, to save the commute. Much more the way of the world now.
Hope the surprise money is yours x

South_coast

Ooh, lots of visitors! Thanks all, I'm delighted to confirm I have now seen my payslip and the money is mine 😀! Whenever I've had tax rebates in the past I've had to write to them in April and ask for it - I had no idea they were so efficient these days! (Although previous ones have been due to incomplete years and mileage claims rather than just a break in earnings, so they're probably trickier to process 🤔) I have kept some aside to top up my salary when the Jobseeker's Allowance shakes down as recommended by badmemory, but I'm going to OP the rest (after all, that's what I would have done with it if they hadn't taken it in the first place)! Last week's £8.06 will pale in comparison 🤣!

Part-time working from home would be awesome Busy_Mee, although I do actually quite enjoy this office - everyone is much more friendly and helpful than I'm used to. Going from nothing to 11 hours out of the house was just a bit of a shock to the system. In the meantime, I have a spell of unexpected working from home, as it turns out the person giving me my "These are the measures we've put in place in the office to stop the spread of Covid" induction that thought they had a cold, actually had....Covid 🤦‍♀️! My first day in an office for 7 months 🤣 So I am currently at home, on the instruction of test and trace (who were actually very efficient - all done by text and they contacted me about 90 minutes after my details were passed on)