Claiming unpaid wages (company going into administration)

[Olga81]

Advised recently that company likely to be going into administration and December wages would not be paid.

For what time period can unpaid wages be claimed? Up to the point we worked, or up to the point the company officially goes into administration?

All Insolvency notices are published in the London Gazette (online only publication), it should happen promptly certainly within a week. If you need to show anyone proof in the mean time the administrators should be happy to confirm their appointment, they also should be sending you confirmation promptly especially as they have made you redundant. The Insolvency Service get info direct from the court so their systems should in theory already have the information.

I thought it would be online already tbh, I have a case reference.

Case reference comes from the court (assuming it's something like 200 of 2018 and has the court name as well)

administrator has to place the notice in the Gazette, it's not done by the court automatically, so it's not immediate but it will get done promptly.

Your preferential entitlement to previous salary is restricted to £489 per week. Any amount you are paid in excess of that will become another unsecured creditor of the company (don't expect to see anything, and don't expect to see it for a long time).

RB68 "long term you would be liable potentially (for those where you are responsible but company pays on yr behalf so tax and NI)"

Are you aware that HMRC generally takes the point?