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Letter · £9 or £19 with follow-up · England, Wales and Scotland

Redundancy pay claim letter

Your written claim for statutory redundancy pay, with your calculation year by year, the other unpaid sums from your final pay, and the date the letter must reach your employer.

This site does not give legal advice. You prepare your letter from your own answers: it sets out facts and calculated amounts, with no opinion on your situation.

Your redundancy
Where did you work?

Bank holidays and some time limits depend on it. Northern Ireland has its own rules: this site does not cover it yet.

Statutory redundancy pay and statutory notice are for employees. Not sure? Acas or Citizens Advice can help you check.

Redundancy pay depends on your age in each year of service.

The date your employment ended (effective date of termination), even if you did not work your notice.

Notice

The day you received the notice, not the date written on the letter if it reached you later.

Leave empty if your contract says nothing: the statutory minimum applies.

For example 12.1. Your letter cites it.

Have you signed a settlement agreement or an Acas agreement (COT3) about your job ending?
Your pay and holiday

As on your payslip, for the period chosen below.

Add up your last 12 weekly payslips, or the equivalent.

Check your holiday pay too?

From your contract. If it says nothing: the anniversary of your start date.

From 0.5 to 7.

In days for regular hours; in hours for irregular hours or part-year work.

Hours worked in each pay period of this leave year

Group periods with the same hours: for example 20 periods of 30 hours. Up to 4 groups.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Leave out weeks with no pay; go back 104 weeks at most.

Your final payslip
Have you received your final payslip?

Time limits for unpaid wages and holiday pay start on this date.

Use the gross figures from your payslip (before tax and National Insurance). Leave a line empty if it is not on your payslip.

For example: the redundancy policy of 1 March 2024, section 4.

As you read it in the document: it is not calculated here.

The period runs to your last day.

For example: October commission.

Facts only, for example: Clause 7.2 of my contract provides for a commission of 5% on sales invoiced before my last day.

You

As on your payslips.

As on your payslip or contract.

Your employer

Without a name, the letter starts “Dear Sir or Madam” and is addressed to Human Resources.

For example: HR Manager.

Needed to send your letter by email.

Date and sending

Today by default.

How you will send it

By email needs your employer's email address.

14 days by default, never fewer than 7. This is a choice of this service, not a legal rule.

Written statement and enclosures

14 days after your letter by default; at least 7 days (section 165(3)).

Enclose copies, never originals. Untick what you do not have.

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Keep your answers

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Preview of your letter

Fill in the questions: the preview appears here, with your dates and amounts.

A written claim keeps your right to redundancy pay

Statutory redundancy pay is lost if, within 6 months of your last day, it has not been paid, agreed, claimed in writing from your employer or claimed at a tribunal (Employment Rights Act 1996, section 164). A letter that reaches your employer within the 6 months keeps your right. The page shows that date and a sending date that leaves 10 days, on a working day.

If you were paid without an explanation, the letter can also ask for a written statement of the calculation (section 165). It is not offered if your employer is insolvent (apply to the Redundancy Payments Service on gov.uk), if you are not an employee, have less than 2 years' service, or have signed a settlement agreement.

What the letter contains

Your dates, the date used for the calculation, the years counted by age band, your week's pay and the £751 limit, the amount and the balance due; any other unpaid sums from your final pay, with their basis; the reply date you choose. Amounts are gross.