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To anyone lucky enough to be due to get back pay from Oct 2004, have you had the money yet?

If you are due some and haven't received it, do you know why? Has anyone considered asking for interest on this money? As colleagues here have been discussing this as something to raise, but would need union backing, and a high percentage of staff as well.

Suffice to say there is a stalling/delaying tactic being deployed at my trust, which some of the cynical staff have said will no doubt drag into the next financial year.

Here in Carlisle back pay calculation was given with our banding notification and was in the next payment into the bank.Interest wasn't included.

Those of us who have worked in the NHS for (too) many years can remember wondering if we were going to get the last years back pay before the next annual pay increase was due, and in those days of high inflation the annual rise and back pay was not insignificant.
As for interest on it......
Keep hoping.
Robert

I glanced at an article in last weeks HSJ and it said that some London Trusts had asked the Inland Revenue whether it could defer payments of income tax and national insurance. They would still deduct it from employees salaries but hope to pay it to IR in the next financial year.

Probably doing it to make this years accounts looking good!!

Therefore I think interest on back pay is looking very unlikely.

Do we get an annual pay increase, in april?

If I ask the inland revenue if I can keep all my tax until I die they can claim it off my estate (If I leave any).
How can big organisations get away with this and the little man not?
Or is that an off topic discusion? More suited to The Moral Maze than EBME.
The NHS has always held on to money to get interest on it. Ask any company who tried to get an invoice paid on time.
I think the likelihood of interest on back pay is as likely as Mr Unlikely winning the unlikliest..etc etc
Robert

We have been informed that anybody who has asked for a review and the review is not completed before the new financial year will recieve interest of on their back pay.
Our understanding is that our trust has to do this it is not of their choosing.
If that is so I would expect other trusts would have to as well.

Well Mr Gobsmack Of Gobsmack Town has never beeen so gobsmacked since winning Gobsmacked of the year.
They are paying interest....has anyone checked the rate?
Robert

So where did that little gem of information appear regarding interest? Re: stevebentley's post.

Now they'll be a mad rush to do all the reviews before the next financial year - OMG!

Another small question; if your trust has promised you they will pay you this money and they don't (we've had 2 dates now, which have come and gone and they have failed to make the payment). What happens? I have heard they have made a contract to do so if they have given a date, where would one get confirmation of this?

What happens if you happen to be at the top of your payscale before AFC. After AFC you find yourself midway up a band ie.with several incremental points now on offer. Does the incremental points that you would have moved up since oct 2004 taken into account??