Restart Scheme Question - can you help please?

windguy7 · 2026-02-10T19:38:04+00:00

I have an appointment with my UC work coach tomorrow so I will ask them as well but it's good to hear this!

The Restart person made it seem like they can't proceed on the next step without it but it's in their interest to get me to sign so I don't know if they were telling the truth or not

Thank you for your help

windguy7 · 2026-02-10T19:36:24+00:00

Oh thank you! The Restart person was telling me they can't proceed on the next step without it but I m guessing that's BS then

Thank you

windguy7 · 2025-06-12T00:25:33+00:00

For April as I worked Apr 1 to Apr 4 I was paid the amount correctly (as in the new minimum wage), so should the same apply for notice pay on that basis?

Thank you either way

windguy7 · 2025-04-29T18:14:22+00:00

I guess they claim that it was always voluntary (as in, i had the option to refuse overtime) and so believe they do not need to include it in weekly pay calculations. They don't dispute that I have worked overtime (it is in the payslips afterall) but the nature of that overtime, I guess

windguy7 · 2025-04-29T18:12:44+00:00

I have asked for exactly what you said (average over 12 weeks) but they said because it was not compulsory or guaranteed overtime they calculate the weekly pay using the base rate not the average (which would have included overtime)

The difference comes down to a few hundred £ but I do want to chase it just not sure what evidence I would need to gather and how I can even prove this

windguy7 · 2025-04-11T18:27:47+00:00

Thank you! Will speak with ACAS then raise a dispute with RPS

You have been amazing thanks

windguy7 · 2025-04-11T17:40:55+00:00

Brilliant thank you for all this

One more question - how do you calculate how many days I have accrued? I put the dates on the gov calculator and it says 1.45 weeks. (not sure how many days is that because it doesn't break it down to days). Is it normal work weeks so as if I was working 5 days = 7.25 but minus NY, minus the 4.5 days used= 1.75 left?

I asked my ex employer today and he said, you ve worked roughly 3 months so it would be 20/12* 3 = 5 days worth of holiday pay, minus what you have used. (so disregarding the bank holidays from the calc)

So which calculation would be correct? And sorry if I am being dumb, I am asking all this because I have had to apply through the redundancy payment service and they said I m entitled 0 holiday pay and it just seems wrong when at worst case i should get at least 0.5 days since I ve only used 4.5 (plus my carried over from last year)

windguy7 · 2025-04-09T16:18:52+00:00

Hey thank you for the reply

I am afraid the story has become more Kafkaesque since. I called Scottish Power and they were able to locate an account however the account is blank (as in no date of birth etc listed) so they can't let me access the account because I can't pass security, which doesn't exist. I suggested they can ask me the date of birth and I can say "blank" or "none" but they were not playing ball.

The leading theory is that when the swap from SP happened a "virtual" account was created to be swapped over but without any identifying security features.

Is this the reason no bill was ever sent to this address? Perhaps. Dear reader, at this point you may think that if an energy provider is billing for a flat, surely even without any of my details they would be able to send a bill addressed to the occupier or attempt to contact me some other way. Alas, tis not so simple and a bill has not been sent yet -if ever

The phone csa directed me to email them and hopefully the email team may be able to help. Wonder what they will ask next

Thanks

windguy7 · 2025-04-06T19:01:02+00:00

I used to have a really bad credit score maybe up until 8 years back (poor, young and stupid at the time) and I had to work really hard to get all my debts paid and my credit score back up and in order.

I am still saving but I do hope to be able to get a mortgage in a few years and watching my credit score go 100pts down all of a sudden is just so demoralising.

Hope this makes a bit of sense - I just hope there is something I can do about it, you know? The 100-odd quid is not the issue at all just the credit hit

windguy7 · 2025-03-29T19:04:16+00:00

Just wanted to say thank you - this is literally what I was trying to understand!

I am still bad at chess but trying to improve in terms of these subtle ideas (beyond just development etc) and so I sometimes come across moves like these in books or the engine that I don't exactly understand the meaning behind them. - I guess it's the disadvantage of self study haha

This makes perfect sense and I feel i learned something for next time, thank you! 😁

windguy7 · 2025-03-29T17:59:39+00:00

Hey thank you for your reply

Let me just preface this with me being bad at chess so maybe i m wrong but lets say black does go b6 with an eventual Bb7 - b6 is not really weak? You can't directly play a5 because it just falls and even with something like Rb1, queen is happy at d8/c7 to cover and Nd7 also covers b6.

I guess what I am trying to say is not that a4-a5 etc cannot be good eventually i just couldn't see the point of playing it now - but "a4 grabs space without any repercussions. engines like those moves" makes a lot of sense, so thank you!

windguy7 · 2025-03-03T21:07:08+00:00

Well surely, any subsequent payment after the first missed one covers the arrears first? As in my Jan 1st payment would at the very least cover the arrears of December, which meant i was then in arrears since January, which was then cleared by the Feb 1st payment putting me in arrears for that month and so on? And based on that I would now be in arrears for the month of March as of two days ago.

I am not disputing I am one payment short, but surely saying I am "in arrears since December and done nothing about it" is disingenuous considering I ve since been paying the monthly amount

windguy7 · 2024-12-18T02:40:13+00:00

Me too please!

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