School job pay gap

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I have just left a job in one school to go to another. My previous school will be paying me through the summer and my last pay packet is mid August. However my new pay date (different local authority) will be on the last working day of September. I start work there on 30th August.

What do ai do about not having any salary coming in for all for the two weeks from Mid Sept to the end of the month?

I am a single parent on some benefits that top up my salary but they will soon be reduced due to a slight pay rise which I will have informed HMRC about in August.

Is there anything I can do apart from take a mortgage break?

😂I would rather be paid every month than laid every month 🤣

Surely you will then get paid half way through Sept as well if your notice doesn't run out until end of Aug? So half a month (latter half of Aug) paid on 15th September?

This isn’t what they have confirmed with me.

I would have thought that if it is one week back and one week forward and the pay date is 15th then I would have to have worked 1-14th Sept to get a payment in September.

I will be in my new post by then which pays me on the last day of the month.

have just got off the phone to the mortgage company and am taking a two month mortgage break (Aug and Sept) plus changing the Direct Debit date, so hopefully it will be less stressful.

I know you've dismissed food banks OP but there are some other ways to get food more cheaply. Google for food waste/share schemes in your local area. Often you can get a good amount of food for very little or free. For instance there is Olio which I think is country wide, or the town nearest to me has a food waste hub where anyone can get a basket of food for £3. Obviously a lot of it is nearing its sell by and may be a bit random, but it could massively help with your food bills over the summer, especially with a ravenous tween!

it's not really a case of 'not having any salary coming in'. Being paid on 15th August is for the whole month of August. Of course the new role won't pay you earlier than their pay roll date and can expect you to work the whole month of September first.

Being paid on the 15th of august is pay up to the 15th September which is great.

However, up until I phoned my mortgage company and took a mortgage break, I would have had two mortgage payments coming out of that one salary and combined those mortgage payments are more than my salary. So as you can see it would have been a bit of a problem for me financially not to have any salary coming in for those two weeks.

it is all sorted now though thankfully.