24 hours rates

Posted on Employers PAnet forum on  Employers-PANet  but might be useful to all having Personal Assistants  (PAs) on Personal Budget (PB):

sleep in night - Standard: £91.28 (net pay a day) X 1.3 = £118.66 hidden cost

including Statutory Holiday Pay (shp) to the PA and National Insurance (NI) and tax that you pay HMRC

£91.28 + £27.38 = £118.66 (must be in PB account for each standard sleep in night)

on the pay slip each £91.28 will be needing shp £91.28 X 12.07% = £11.02 for casual part time work;

a payroll service connected to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will produce a sheet of dues at the end of each quarter and voilà!

I can do the same with:

• 24h sleep in higher need £136.62
• 24h waking night standard care  £179.70  
• 24h waking night higher care £215.65.

I follow roughly the Direct Payment Rates from April 2009 from Bath and North East Somerset council.

 X 1.3 is the rate for finding hidden costs

and 12.07% the way to find shp of any time worked by a PA.

These two rules gave me nightmares until I found how simple it was. The Shaw Trust was not helpful but Phoenix SW was!

Two PAs did not get fair pay because of that last year.

 I hope it helps, best wishes!