Furlough JRS dates

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I'm just doing the first furlough payment and want to double check the dates!  We are on monthly payroll, so employees will have been paid up to and including 30th April.  Some employees were furloughed on the 1st May.  Do I need to consider the tax month dates rather than payroll dates, ie. do I need to do the furlough payments from 6th May, rather than the 1st May? I am probably overthinking it!  And Sage seems to agree with me that I just do 31 days of May as I am doing the furlough from 1st May to 31st May for the first return.

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By Wanderer
19th May 2020 17:34

You are overthinking.

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By Cheshire
19th May 2020 17:45

+ run the numbers yourself, dont just trust the sage workings, apparantly they have been shown to be incorrect, according to several posts on here.

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By lionofludesch
19th May 2020 18:18

Please yourself. I've done the monthlies to calendar months and the weeklies to the nearest date to the end of the month. There's no right answer.

Definitely don't trust any software. By all means see what it says but be critical.

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By Kate Upcraft
21st May 2020 10:00

The claim has got nothing to do with tax months as it’s a completely standalone process. It’s just important that the next clean date follows on successively from the end date of the previous claim so if you did a claim from the 1st to the 30th of April
The next one Starts on the 1st of May but you’ll never get it to match exactly with pay frequencies as you have to do one claim per PAYE scheme. for example I did a claim at the weekend from the 1st to the 31st of May but some of the people in it had pay from the 26th of April because that was the cut-off in the last claim, but the salaried staff were paid to the 30th of April. it’s not an exact science at all but as long as you keep the evidence as to how you established the figures that’s all that matters

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