North Lanarkshire Update
Back in June 2015 North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) was ordered to make payment to all 'First Wave' equal pay A4ES clients after deducting tax, NI and pension contributions at the appropriate rates.
But having checked the Council's calculations, Karl in the A4ES office concluded that there were 87 clients whose taxes had been incorrectly calculated and so A4ES quickly raised this issue with NLC on behalf of the individuals concerned.
Yesterday (Friday 26 February) the Council finally agreed that incorrect tax deductions had indeed been made from these 87 A4ES clients and that the Council would arrange to have the overpayments reimbursed on Monday 29 February 2016.
Most of the people involved will not be expecting this additional payment from NLC, nor will they realise that A4ES raised the matter on their behalf and has been arguing for all these months for their overpayments to be returned.
Until now, of course.
Most of the people involved will not be expecting this additional payment from NLC, nor will they realise that A4ES raised the matter on their behalf and has been arguing for all these months for their overpayments to be returned.
Until now, of course.
As most of the A4ES clients will probably receive the money in their accounts on Monday (by bank transfer), this post on the blog site is intended to explain what's been going behind the scenes since June 2015.
A letter from A4ES will be sent out to all 87 clients involved next week and will arrive after the bank transfer has actually been made, given the timescales involved, but at least people will now understand why a further payment from NLC suddenly appears in their bank account.
So I think it's fair to say that A4ES has, yet again, gone the extra mile (without any direct benefit or additional fees) to ensure that its clients get what they deserve - around £30,000 in total which would otherwise have stayed in North Lanarkshire Council's coffers.
