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Families face financial penalties when young people take up apprenticeships. A new report from the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) finds that the benefit system is influencing post‑16 choices regarding education and training. The perverse effects risk undermining other government policy aims, in particular to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment … Continue reading Families face age 16 apprenticeship penalty
As part of the HMRC April 2026 Employers Bulletin, the HMRC are again blaming employers for problems with the HMRC RTI system. Employers create duplicate employments! They state that: Employers continue to create duplicate employments when a payroll ID is changed but the payroll ID change indicator is not used. This typically occurs when the … Continue reading RTI submission problems — incorrect handling of payroll ID
HMRC publishes the Employer Bulletin 6 times a year, giving employers and agents the latest information on topics and issues that may affect them. Some of these topics have already been covered by PAYadvice.UK in articles and blogs and further articles and blogs may now additionally be published. The April 2026 edition of Employer Bulletin … Continue reading Employer Bulletin: April 2026
Winter Fuel Payments paid in winter 2025 will be recovered from pensioners with income above £35,000 Check if your payment will be reclaimed at GOV.UK - you don’t need to contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Scammers may try to trick customers into handing money over Pensioners are being warned to be on high alert for scams … Continue reading Winter Fuel Payment scams targeting pensioners
Statutory Sick Pay: record sheet (SSP2) has been updated to reflect changes brought in by the Employment Rights Act 2025, to remove the waiting period before SSP can be made. Employers can use form SSP2 to record details of an employee’s sickness absences for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) and monitor the use of the 28 … Continue reading Statutory Sick Pay record sheet update
The HMRC Software Developers Support Team (SDST) have notified software developers on a difference in this year Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) uprating order to prior practice and original expectations. Under a notice issued to developers ‘Payroll 2026-27: Correction to uprating dates for certain Statutory Parental Pay entitlements’, the SDST have provided the following: … Continue reading Statutory Payments uprating error
Wishing PAYadvice Ltd a very happy 7th Birthday. On 9th April 2019 PAYadvice Ltd was registered with companies house and there lays the birth of PAYadvice.UK. What was originally a WordPress side-hobby has become a registered and regulated business providing regular speed blog for all things Payroll, employment and beyond. PAYadvice.UK has seen its active … Continue reading Happy 7th Birthday PAYadvice.UK – reaching 1 million hits
Leading women’s health campaigner and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup has been appointed as the Government’s Women's Employment Ambassador, a newly created role to support working women across the country. Mariella Frostrup has been appointed as the new Women’s Employment Ambassador to champion women’s health in the workplace. Appointment comes as businesses encouraged to publish voluntary action plans to better support employees experiencing menopause symptoms. Together these measures will work to address the near record … Continue reading Millions of working women set to benefit from landmark workplace health drive
Hundreds of thousands of sick or disabled people will be offered voluntary help towards employment as part of a package of measures coming into force 6th April 2026 that will encourage work and save taxpayers around £1 billion. Incentives that discourage work and trap people on benefits to be removed via legislation coming into force 6th … Continue reading Thousands to be supported into work with reforms to welfare system
Landmark employment rights reforms kick into force. Millions of employees to benefit from reforms to Statutory Sick Pay, ensuring they can take time off when sick without worrying about going without pay. New rights to paternity leave from the first day in a new job, helping families balance work and home life. Changes are part of the Employment Rights Act, which will benefit … Continue reading Millions get new access to sick pay and parental leave
Here it is again, the start of a New Tax Year. Often when meeting with payroll and tax professionals from overseas, they wonder why the United Kingdom tax year commences on 6th April annually. Why is that when so many countries around the world celebrate both the new year and the tax year on 1st … Continue reading Happy New (Tax) Year 2026
Hard working Brits will keep more of their cash under a new government crackdown on unwanted and misleading subscriptions New measures set out to make subscriptions clearer and far easier to manage or cancel Changes will help tackle the cost of living, by saving consumers around £400m annually with new rules to stop “free trials” turning into pricey surprises Consumers at the heart of action, with protections against daily grinds such as endless … Continue reading Crackdown on subscription traps
Britain faces an urgent economic inactivity crisis driven in large part by ill-health and the barriers to work faced by disabled people. Over 1 in 5 working-age adults (2.8 million)are out of work and not looking for work and the most common cause is long-term health issues. The disability employment rate is 52.8%, 29.5% below … Continue reading Keep Britain Working – an update
(c)2025 PAYadvice Ltd New minimum wage rates come into force [for pay reference period starting{ from 1st April [2026], following Low Pay Commission recommendations. Increased rates of the National Minimum Wage, including the National Living wage came into force for pay reference period from 1st April 2026. These rates bring into effect recommendations made by the … Continue reading National Living Wage rises to £12.71