Furlough claim submission for 1/11/20 onwards

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We are submitting a few furlough claims and for periods since 1/11/20 they look to have changed some of the questions/format etc when you submit the claim.

The scenario we have come across a few times now is where you have say a calendar month pay period with one member of staff being furloughed for the full month and another member of staff being furloughed mid month (typically from lockdown)

You put the claim period in as 1/11/20 to 30/11/20 and it no longer asks you for the start date of the furlough for each member of staff.  It assumes the start of the furlough period for each member of staff is 1/11/20 which in a lot of cases will not be correct.  There does not appear to be any way of overriding this?

We can submit the correct claim amount so that is fine, but i'm just a bit concious the figures won't tally at HMRC's end if they do any sort of "check" (given the furlough period is wrong).

Has anyone else come across this?

 

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By Wanderer
24th Nov 2020 14:28

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Furlough claim submission for 1/11/20 onwards
We are submitting a few furlough claims and for periods since 1/11/20 they look to have changed some of the questions/format etc when you submit the claim.

The scenario we have come across a few times now is where you have say a calendar month pay period with one member of staff being furloughed for the full month and another member of staff being furloughed mid month (typically from lockdown)

You put the claim period in as 1/11/20 to 30/11/20 and it no longer asks you for the start date of the furlough for each member of staff. It assumes the start of the furlough period for each member of staff is 1/11/20 which in a lot of cases will not be correct. There does not appear to be any way of overriding this?

We can submit the correct claim amount so that is fine, but i'm just a bit concious the figures won't tally at HMRC's end if they do any sort of "check" (given the furlough period is wrong).

Has anyone else come across this?

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You put the claim period in as 1/11/20 to 30/11/20 and it no longer asks you for the start date of the furlough for each member of staff. 

It never did.
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By the_drookit_dug
24th Nov 2020 16:06

Maybe OP is getting confused with the calculator.

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By SXGuy
24th Nov 2020 14:47

It never did ask you for the start period of each employee. It did ask you for the starting period of all employees.

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By Hugo Fair
25th Nov 2020 20:01

"You put the claim period in as 1/11/20 to 30/11/20 and it no longer asks you for the start date of the furlough for each member of staff."

The only 'start date' ever requested was/is for the Claim Period ... in order to make sure that you are not submitting overlapping claim periods (and, since 1st Nov, that the claim period doesn't cover parts of more than one calendar month).

You then enter every employee who was furloughed at any point within that period ... showing their usual and worked hours (as part of the claim for that employee). See https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wages-through-the-coronavirus-job-...

HOWEVER, this only applies when submitting a claim for fewer than 100 employees. If you have more furloughed employees than that, then you must use the template supplied by HMRC (which confusingly does have fields for furlough start & end dates of each employee)!

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