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I started a temp job last Friday after spending the rest of the tax year on JSA. I didn't have my P45 yet, so I had to fill in the agency's online equivalent of a P46 declaration on their online timesheet system.
The trouble is that yesterday I tried to log in to do this week's timesheet and I didn't get the password right on the first two attempts, so was locked out. I was trying to follow IT best practice by having a different (and strong) password for everything and managed to forget this one the first couple of times. No problem, I thought, I'll just follow the procedure to set a new password. So I did - and then once I had done that, it told me that the account was suspended anyway and to contact the IT admin if I "feel" that this is wrong.
Of course the IT staff are on bloody holiday and won't be back until 2 January, as indeed the rest of the agency's employees won't be.
Now my problem is that I am in the worst of all possible worlds here because I ticked "Statement B" on the P46, which I understand will put me on a "Week 1" emergency tax code. As I will have missed the deadline for this particular week's payroll, it will be rolled over to the next available pay week, which means I miss out on a week's personal allowance - on bloody emergency tax at that, which will put me a couple of hundred quid out of pocket when technically I shouldn't be paying a bean as I've only received about £2,000 in benefits and my personal allowance will be the standard £9.44k.
As it happens, my actual P45 from the DWP has now arrived in the post. If I give this to the agency people when they get back to work on 2 January, how long can I expect it to take to be put on my proper tax code?
The trouble is that yesterday I tried to log in to do this week's timesheet and I didn't get the password right on the first two attempts, so was locked out. I was trying to follow IT best practice by having a different (and strong) password for everything and managed to forget this one the first couple of times. No problem, I thought, I'll just follow the procedure to set a new password. So I did - and then once I had done that, it told me that the account was suspended anyway and to contact the IT admin if I "feel" that this is wrong.
Of course the IT staff are on bloody holiday and won't be back until 2 January, as indeed the rest of the agency's employees won't be.
Now my problem is that I am in the worst of all possible worlds here because I ticked "Statement B" on the P46, which I understand will put me on a "Week 1" emergency tax code. As I will have missed the deadline for this particular week's payroll, it will be rolled over to the next available pay week, which means I miss out on a week's personal allowance - on bloody emergency tax at that, which will put me a couple of hundred quid out of pocket when technically I shouldn't be paying a bean as I've only received about £2,000 in benefits and my personal allowance will be the standard £9.44k.
As it happens, my actual P45 from the DWP has now arrived in the post. If I give this to the agency people when they get back to work on 2 January, how long can I expect it to take to be put on my proper tax code?
They're still deducting National Insurance, of course, which I can't do anything about (even though the government is cutting back on the very services that we paid NI all these years for 
).
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