NHS backed pay rise

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Just wondered if anyone has received their backdated NHS pay rise in their October pay. If so, how bad were all the deductions? We are getting ours in November pay, I was hoping it'd help for Xmas but it looks like with pension, student loan, tax and NI increase I'll be very disappointed.

The pension back pay is to do with pension brackets. I’ll make the numbers up to make it easy.

say you earn <£20000 you’ll pay a pension contribution of 6% for your yearly salary in the 10k-20k bracket.

now say you earn £20500 for the year. You have moved into paying 8% pension contributions but it’s on the whole salary and not just the but over 20k so it wipes out the pay rise and you owe backdated contributions.

Which HB?

Also top of a band 7. I got just over a grand extra.

@fussygalore118

I am C+V and we are this month

I'm phw and this month as well ( as far as I know lol)

Thank you for explaining this. I currently pay 6.5% into my pension, to be honest I don't know much about it; I just pay it. So hadn't realised the percentage increases.

We are getting it this month and I'm ABUHB

I am band 8a working 22.5hrs and got an additional £700

Yes I had pension arrears on my October payslip, it wasn't too much though

Call Payroll and make sure you're on the right tax code.
In regards to back pay it depends what band you are but yes, the deductions were significant. We had the option to have the backpay paid in installments if we wanted to.

We should receive ours next week. Any extra I get is offset by the reduction/removal of my Universal Credit payment the following month so I never get my hopes up that I'll feel any better off.

We had the option to stagger ours to avoid affecting UC

I've only worked for the NHS for a few years but I've never been offered to stagger it.

I suppose it works out the same whatever way you do it.

Waves from RGH (although not tonight, no weekends for me!!).

This was the first time I’ve come across it. I don’t claim UC and don’t fully understand how this would or wouldn’t help tbh. I assume as it was offered it could help some of my colleagues.

Full time, Mid point band 6 got about £600 after deductions, which felt a bit rubbish when it was 7 months of back pay!

Once you earn more than £404, your universal credit payment will reduce by 55p for every £1.

So if my baseline UC entitlement is £500 and I earn £1000 in a month, my UC will reduce by £327, meaning I will receive £173 UC.

£1000 -£404 = £596
£596 x 55p = £327
£500 - £327 = £173

If I randomly get an extra £500 in my wage it would wipe out my UC payment altogether and once you also take off extra deductions you're barely, if at all better off.

I think some people choose to stagger it so that their payment is slightly reduced over a few months rather than completely wiped out in one go but it works out the same in the long run.

It was offered to stagger the backdated 6 months over 6 months where I work. 16 people took it up out of about 1700 staff.

@fussygalore118 Cardiff and Vale UHB. I wouldn't even know if my husband hadn't forwarded me the email his team got. Suspect my line manager doesn't know herself yet.

Thanks so much for sharing as I'm in the same position and wasn't sure how much to expect. X

That's really crap!! :(

Band 4, 30 hours, I have staggered mine for UC purposes but got around £100 extra in October's pay, so looks like overall I’ll get about £600.

So I think I get what's going on in my health board as they've just released the payslips for our 21st Nov payment. I think the adjustment for the new intermediate steps is what will be paid in January and the backdate at our current wage from April is what we've got now.

For anyone wondering how much of your uplift is eaten by tax/NI etc I was slightly soul destroyed to see my arrear payment was £995 but my actual take home pay was less than £400 more than usual. (I'm on 9.8% pension rate and student loan repayment plan one).

Although to add it looks like I've been incorrectly taxed on it so will have to wait a year to claim a rebate. Great stuff 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm reading this thread and feeling slightly jealous.

I work in an organisation separate from but run by a govt dept. We haven't even had our payrise agreed yet let alone gone to the union for agreement. Its likely to be Feb before its in our pay packets and the next round begins in April.

Every year it gets later and later and is now beyond a joke.