Expenses not been paid anyone know the legalities ?

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Long story short i think my boss missed the post and the deadline for Decembers expenses, this led to me being £800 out of pocket over the Christmas period.
I have raised this with my manager who has basically said there is no obligation for them to pay expenses at all, in which case I feel rather reluctant to pay anything out of my own pocket ever again. Which will impact on performing my role.
Does anyone know what the truth is about this matter ACCAS were vague tbh.

What's in your contract? If they've paid expenses before it'd be hard for them to argue they can't pay them now.

It's a contractual rather than specific legal obligation, but are they saying they won't be paying them and claiming no legal obligation to do so or will you get them just a bit late due to an error?

If it's just a bit late due to an error sounds like your manager has said that in a lashing-out, defensive way following you raising your concern, rather than anything specifically to worry about.

However if you've felt the need to phone ACAS that does sound as though you genuinely think they are not going to pay at all. Which is it?

I think they will pay them, I contacted ACAS on 20th December because they have made a deduction out of my salary to pay off the company credit card, Decembers pay but said don't worry you'll get the money back in your expenses payment, which then didn't happen.
I'm now being promised everything will be repaid by the end of January and all will be up to date but it's meant that I basically didn't get paid in December at all and all the implications that go with that, DD's bouncing etc.
I'm pretty upset and it seems the deductions are perfectly legal because it states they can do so in my contract according to ACAS.

All of this boils down to him missing the post.

I had this situation to a much smaller extent when I started working. As most junior in the office I used to have to do various errands often involving paying court fees on behalf of other offices. Often they got the amount wrong and I had to make up the amount by cheque or with cash. This often added up to quite a lot and at the time most of my salary was eaten by mortgage so not pleasant .

We had to claim back amounts paid through expenses which took btwn 6-8 weeks. So they were effectively getting an interest free loan from us.

Towards the end of my time since I knew I was leaving I took up cudgels on this and pointed out we could be paid back thru petty cash and not doing so was very unfair on the lowest paid. After some arguing this was agreed.

I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to do in yr position but maybe have a talk with accounts and see if it can be sped up and try and find a way that either the money doesn't get deducted from yr salary or you get agreement on how fast it will be repaid.