Universal credit

calcotti

TheShape said:I would think though that an employee paid 4 weekly could lose out very slightly vs a monthly paid employee where their annual wage was the same and the monthly amount would fall below below the work allowance.  This scenario would depend on the exact amount of earnings though.  They wouldn't lose a whole month of Work Allowance but could find that in one AP some of their earnings were above the Work Allowance where a monthly paid worker has no earnings above the Work Allowance at any point.

That is possible (and more likely for someone with no housing costs and therefore the higher work allowance).

calcotti

huckster said:

There was another recent case where a district Judge ( York Court ?)  ruled about 4 weekly pay and benefit cap
The case involved a claimant doing limited hours per week and the 4 weeks worth of earnings reported was less than the threshold to earn a benefit cap exemption.  Had the employers paid the claimant monthly, the extra earnings would have been enough to just exceed the threshold for the benefit cap not to apply.  The claimant was therefore affected adversely by UC using RTI reported earnings and not averaging earnings out over 12 months.

Nothing to do with what the OP's thread.   Others have already answered the OP's question. 

And it will be interesting how DWP deal with this. The more they have to adjust RTI information the less automated the system can be and atet is where costs savings were supposed to be created.