Being underpaid £1200

gunner786

I think i have been underpaid. In the year 2016-17 i had a full time job all the way through. Taxi was my part time job. And i have lost out £1200 due to this. Can i appeal this? My fulltime job was 20k per year and its all on PAYE. Do i have any chance on appeal?
I was expecting £3800 but am getting 2663

2018-19 £19487
2017-18 £19606
2016-17 £852 (this was the year i was in a full time job and only went self employed at the end)

Average: £13,315

Jeremy535897

£2,663 is correct. No account can be taken of the fact that you were only self employed for part of 2016/17. The system could not be automated and do this.

neily9

gunner786 said:

I think i have been underpaid. In the year 2016-17 i had a full time job all the way through. Taxi was my part time job. And i have lost out £1200 due to this. Can i appeal this? My fulltime job was 20k per year and its all on PAYE. Do i have any chance on appeal?
I was expecting £3800 but am getting 2663

2018-19 £19487
2017-18 £19606
2016-17 £852 (this was the year i was in a full time job and only went self employed at the end)

Average: £13,315

I am in a very similar situation. 2016-17 I was on PAYE and doing a few hours a week self-employed for almost the whole year. Before the open date to actually apply, I saw a couple of things, can't remember where now, that made me think that year would be disregarded (looks like I may have misunderstood, or info I got was misinterpreted) But it seems we are far from alone reading these forums. It doesn't make sense to calculate this way. I will appeal, as I think the more ppl who do, there may be a small chance they may change? (maybe just wishful thinking, but worth a try, got nothing to lose. You should too)

Dazed_and_C0nfused

In some circumstances if may be disregarded to determine eligibility.

But it won't be disregarded when calculating the SEISS payment.

Bibbitybobbitybop

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

In some circumstances if may be disregarded to determine eligibility.

But it won't be disregarded when calculating the SEISS payment.

Spot on. So many people failing to grasp this.

slacky1230

Its not a case of not being able to grasp this its the fact its not a true reflection of earnings. How can they use it to calculate if your eligible then on the other hand include the less than 50% (part year) in your average earnings? 

John_

What do you mean how can they use it? They take the figure, and put it into the calculations.

Grumpy_chap

They use the figures for the three years as per your tax returns for those three years.  Probably this is to protect against fraud.  No account taken of part-year self-employed earnings, so that is just unfortunate.