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NI overpayments

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ToBeOrNotToBee · 16/12/2024 09:15

For some reason I decided to look again at my p60s (end of tax year pay summaries) and put the figures into a NI calculator for the tax year as I noticed that some years, despite earning very similar amounts the NI varied quite wildly.
In the Last 8 years, according to various calculators, I've overpaid over £2000.
The last 5 years, some years its £150, others it's nearly £500 totaling £1500.
I've looked online and can see that you can claim back money from the government but they prefer your employer to reduce your current rates instead.
As you can imagine I have no faith in my employers payroll services (other things have gone on which have led to a complete breakdown of trust recently).

Has anyone done this before, what would be a suitable timeliness for payroll to look into it and make the adjustments?

Also, I work for a large public sector body, 400+ people, I'm guaranteed to not be the only one affected. Is there an expectation of my employer looking into this for everyone, if not, I feel like sending an organisation wide email highlighting the issue but that might be used against me (employer has been doing some quite unlawful things and I've been quite vocal about my displeasure)

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WaryPinkPoster · 16/12/2024 09:16

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ToBeOrNotToBee · 16/12/2024 09:16

Which and two other tax specific websites

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Harassedevictee · 17/12/2024 17:17

If you are public sector I would write to the HR Director and set out in detail what the errors are. Include that HMRC advice is that as your employer they are responsible for resolving this.

If you are in a TU ask them to write to the HR Director on your behalf.

ToBeOrNotToBee · 17/12/2024 19:21

Harassedevictee · 17/12/2024 17:17

If you are public sector I would write to the HR Director and set out in detail what the errors are. Include that HMRC advice is that as your employer they are responsible for resolving this.

If you are in a TU ask them to write to the HR Director on your behalf.

Yesterday I called HMRC and they went through my contributions with me, and they agreed, there are years of overpayments.
I then emailed HR payroll, included that i had spoken with HMRC, who replied today saying I was mistaken and must have been using dodgy maths (my role requires maths so this is particularly insulting).

I'm just going to submit a refund request to HMRC and see what comes back, then tell everyone in my organisation to check theirs too.

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Harassedevictee · 17/12/2024 21:20

@ToBeOrNotToBee ouch - not a good reply from HR.

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 19/12/2024 15:16

ToBeOrNotToBee · 16/12/2024 09:15

For some reason I decided to look again at my p60s (end of tax year pay summaries) and put the figures into a NI calculator for the tax year as I noticed that some years, despite earning very similar amounts the NI varied quite wildly.
In the Last 8 years, according to various calculators, I've overpaid over £2000.
The last 5 years, some years its £150, others it's nearly £500 totaling £1500.
I've looked online and can see that you can claim back money from the government but they prefer your employer to reduce your current rates instead.
As you can imagine I have no faith in my employers payroll services (other things have gone on which have led to a complete breakdown of trust recently).

Has anyone done this before, what would be a suitable timeliness for payroll to look into it and make the adjustments?

Also, I work for a large public sector body, 400+ people, I'm guaranteed to not be the only one affected. Is there an expectation of my employer looking into this for everyone, if not, I feel like sending an organisation wide email highlighting the issue but that might be used against me (employer has been doing some quite unlawful things and I've been quite vocal about my displeasure)

If you are I. A union just let them know what's going on. No doubt they will follow it up.

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