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Statutory redundancy claim letter

Your written claim to your employer for your statutory redundancy lump sum, or the balance if you were paid less: with the calculation, the official form RP77 filled in with your answers as an option, and the date the claim must reach your employer (52 weeks).

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 employment

How your employment ended

This tool calculates your annual leave, public holidays and time limits for this situation. Other amounts follow rules it does not cover.

Your start date with this employer

Your last day of employment

The day your employment actually ended, even if you were paid in lieu of notice.

Notice

Date you received notice (optional)

Leave it empty if your employment ended without notice.

How your notice went

Notice your employer must give under your contract (optional)

Leave it empty if your contract says nothing or you do not know.

Unit

For statutory redundancy

I received my redundancy notice in writing

Did you leave before the end of your redundancy notice?

Does your job still exist, done by someone else?

Your PRSI class

On your payslip. Most employees are Class A.

I was under 16 on my first day with this employer

Your date of birth

Used only to count your service from your 16th birthday. Never printed.

Absences in the last 3 years (lay-off, strike, long illness)

Only these absences reduce your service. Maternity, paternity, parental or carer’s leave and other authorised absences count as service: no need to enter them.

Absence 1

From

Absence 2

From

Absence 3

From

Your pay

Does your pay change from week to week (hours or commission)?NoYes

How often you are paid

Your gross pay for that period

Before tax, for your normal hours, with regular bonuses, without overtime.

Your gross pay for the last 13 weeks

Without overtime.

Your gross pay for the last 52 weeks worked

Without overtime. Used for redundancy.

Number of weeks

I worked regular overtimeRegular overtime counts for redundancy.

Overtime pay in the 26 weeks before the last 13 weeks

I was on short time or lay-off in the last year

What you received

Copy the gross amounts from your final payslip. Leave a line empty if nothing was paid for it.

Redundancy payment (optional)

Statutory or more.

Date the redundancy payment was made (optional)

Form RP77

Did your employer give you form RP50 or an “Employee Declaration Form”?

On form RP77, the first or second ground is ticked from this answer only. If you do not know, neither is ticked: you tick the right one yourself.

YesNoI do not know

Include the official form RP77, filled in with your answers, and say in the letter that it is enclosedRP77 is the official form for a claim made to your employer. This service writes your answers on it; you check it, complete what is left by hand and sign it.

You

First name(s)

Surname

Address (first line)

Address (second line) (optional)

Town or city

Eircode (optional)

Email address (optional)

Show my email address in the letter

PPS number

7 digits and 1 or 2 letters, on your payslip or P60.

Your job title

As on your payslip or contract.

Your employer

Your employer’s full legal name

As on your payslip, P60 or contract (the WRC also asks for the full legal name).

Trading name, if different (optional)

Name of the person to write to (optional)

For example the HR manager.

Their role (optional)

Address (first line)

Address (second line) (optional)

Town or city

Eircode (optional)

Your employer’s email address (optional)

Needed to send a copy by email.

Is your employer insolvent?

In liquidation, receivership or examinership.

Date and sending

Date of the letter

Today by default.

How you will send it

Email needs your employer’s email address.

Registered Post (An Post)By handRegistered Post and email

Days your employer has to reply or pay

14 days by default, as form RP77 suggests; 7 at least.

How you want to be paid (optional)

For example: to the bank account into which my wages were paid. No IBAN needed in the letter.

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Keep your answers

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Preview of your letter

Fill in the questionnaire: the preview shows here, with your dates and amounts.

Choose your optionThe letter€9The letter as a full PDF and a clean copy to sign, without the name of this site · the official form RP77 filled in with your answers, to check and sign (option), with its list box by box · sending sheet with the date your claim must arriveWith follow-up€19Everything in the letter, plus: a dated follow-up letter · a follow-up sheet (what to do after your employer’s reply) · email reminders: did you send it, reply date, follow-up date, 30 days before the 52-week limit

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This site does not give legal advice. You write the letter from your own answers; it sets out facts and calculated amounts, with no opinion on your situation. For advice, ask Citizens Information, a trade union or a solicitor.

Claiming statutory redundancy in writing

A written claim to your employer, received within 52 weeks of the end of your employment, keeps your entitlement (Redundancy Payments Act 1967, s. 24(1)(b)). Between 52 and 104 weeks, a late claim is accepted only if the WRC finds a “reasonable cause” for the delay (s. 24(2A)).

The letter sets out your dates, your weekly pay (limited to €600), the days not counted and the lump sum calculated, and asks for payment by a date you choose (14 days by default). The redundancy calculator shows the same calculation for free.

Keep your answers

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Claiming statutory redundancy in writing

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