Redundancy notice pay

lynzdav1

I was recently made redundant and have claimed my notice pay ( 3 weeks as I was employed for 3 years) when I was first made redundant universal credit gave me an emergency pandemic loan of 498.00. This is a loan and has started to be paid back . The redundancy company has deducted this 498.00 from my notice which basically equates to a years worth of notice which i worked hard for. Can they do this ?

Comms69

Redundancy company? 
Who is paying you??

lynzdav1

Claiming through the government ( sorry worded incorrectly )

Comms69

lynzdav1 said:

Claiming through the government ( sorry worded incorrectly )

Then i would say that they will use part of that money to pay off the loan. Seems reasonable.

lynzdav1

They aren’t doing that though, I’m paying the loan back by direct debit 

Comms69

lynzdav1 said:

They aren’t doing that though, I’m paying the loan back by direct debit 

Have you spoken to DWP and the insolvency service about this? I appreciate that sounds silly, but it doesnt make sense

lynzdav1

Is that not who is saying no? Sorry I’m really confused 
universal credit who gave me the loan are saying nope, you are definitely paying it back to us which i totally get. They provided a loan so I pay back - fine
i don’t understand why it needs to be deducted from my notice pay at all

Comms69

lynzdav1 said:

Is that not who is saying no? Sorry I’m really confused 
universal credit who gave me the loan are saying nope, you are definitely paying it back to us which i totally get. They provided a loan so I pay back - fine
i don’t understand why it needs to be deducted from my notice pay at all

I mean - asked the insolvency service if this deduction will pay off the loan

lynzdav1

I’ll ask but in all their communication they’ve not stipulated that’s