Umbrella company, employment costs and expenses

Francesca_T14

Help….
i am an agency worker in education. My agency use an umbrella company to do pay roll. The local authority that I am working for as part of my agency placement pay expenses- these include mileage, parking and reimbursements for money I spend on materials such as equipment. The umbrella company charge me quite a lot of fees when they give me my expenses and I always end up paying out over half of my expenses out. Should I be paying employment costs on my expenses when I already pay them on my wage? 

My payslip and expenses always get paid separately and on separate payslips but the same day and same time. 

Out of £90 of  my own money that I spent on students I have only had £45 back due to these costs. 

I’m worried I will have to give up my placement as this is not financially viable for me 

DullGreyGuy

What employment costs are they charging on the expenses components?

Are they allowable expenses and so exempt from income tax etc?

Did the client reimburse the expenses?

Savvy_Sue

It's possibly worth putting up redacted examples of each payslip, something may leap out at people that way. 

Marcon

Francesca_T14 said:

Help….
i am an agency worker in education. My agency use an umbrella company to do pay roll. The local authority that I am working for as part of my agency placement pay expenses- these include mileage, parking and reimbursements for money I spend on materials such as equipment. The umbrella company charge me quite a lot of fees when they give me my expenses and I always end up paying out over half of my expenses out. Should I be paying employment costs on my expenses when I already pay them on my wage? 

My payslip and expenses always get paid separately and on separate payslips but the same day and same time. 

Out of £90 of  my own money that I spent on students I have only had £45 back due to these costs. 

I’m worried I will have to give up my placement as this is not financially viable for me 

Have you asked the umbrella company to explain why they are treating reimbursements as wages, which from your post seems to be what they are doing?