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PayPacket Limited,
2nd Floor,
The Hub,
40 Friar Lane,
Nottingham.
NG1 6DQ.
Company Registered in England & Wales.
Reg. No. 5592310
PayPacket Celebrates Two Decades as Your Trusted Direct Payment Payroll Partner. This year, PayPacket proudly marks 20 years of supporting people across the UK with reliable, compliant directpayment payroll and pension services. Since 2005, we’ve stayed true to our mission: offering stressfree, transparent payroll support to individuals, service users, personal assistants (PAs) and carers, and giving […]
Posted 28 November 2025 Read MoreThe Autumn Budget confirmed that income tax thresholds will remain frozen until April 2029. This affects how much tax working people will pay as earnings change over time. Key Details Personal Allowance: £12,570 (unchanged) Higher Rate Threshold: £50,270 (unchanged) Tax Rates: Basic rate: 20% Higher rate: 40% These thresholds will not increase for at least […]
Posted 26 November 2025 Read MoreFrom 1 April 2026, the UK Government will implement new minimum wage rates following recommendations from the Low Pay Commission. These changes aim to support workers during ongoing cost-of-living pressures, but they also mean employers need to prepare for higher payroll costs. New Rates Announced National Living Wage (Age 21+): Increasing by 4.1% from £12.21 […]
Posted 26 November 2025 Read MoreApril saw our payroll portal successfully launched, giving our clients access to real time information about their payroll. The main benefits include a document library showing all payroll costings, making producing information for audit really simple – everything you need all conveniently stored in one location. The portal is fully self serviced and simple to […]
Posted 8 May 2024 Read MoreThe National / Minimum Wage is a statutory requirement for a minimum hourly wage to be paid to workers in the United Kingdom from age 21. In April 2025 this increased to £12.21 for those aged 21 and over, for 18–20-year-olds £10.00 per hour and for 16–17-year-olds £7.55 per hour
Posted 1 March 2024 Read MoreThe government has recently published draft amendments to Paternity Leave regulations, coming into force from 8th March 2024, aimed at making paternity leave more flexible The Regulations make the following changes: employees will be able to take their two-week paternity leave entitlement as two separate one-week blocks (rather than having to take just one week in […]
Posted 16 January 2024 Read MoreThe government has announced draft legislation to reform holiday pay for part-time and irregular hours workers in an effort to simplify the calculation for irregular hours and part-year employees. These changes will effect any holiday year commencing on or after 1st April 2024. How to calculate and administer holiday pay has raised challenges and concerns […]
Posted 16 January 2024 Read MoreWe’re delighted to share a significant development in employment rights: The Carers Leave Regulations 2024. These regulations were recently laid before Parliament and set out the statutory scheme for employees to apply for up to one week of unpaid carer’s leave within a 12-month period. These new regulations will give all unpaid carers the right […]
Posted 16 January 2024 Read MoreBy law, there is a minimum total contribution that must be paid into the scheme. For the 2025/26 tax year, the total minimum contribution is 8% of a worker’s “qualifying earnings“. The employer must contribute at least 3%, and the employee makes up the remaining 5%. Qualifying earnings for automatic enrolment is £192 per week.
Posted 28 March 2018 Read MoreThe government is increasing the National Minimum and National Living Wage rates on 1 April 2018. This includes the largest increases in a decade for the rates that apply to 18-20 and 21-24 year olds. As the minimum wage increases more employers than ever will be directly affected, including those who currently pay above the minimum. […]
Posted 13 February 2018 Read MoreThe government has launched a new compliance scheme for social care providers that may have incorrectly paid workers below legal minimum wage hourly rates for sleep-in shifts. Social care employers will be able to opt into the new Social Care Compliance Scheme (SCCS), giving them up to a year to identify what they owe to […]
Posted 3 November 2017 Read MoreCare workers in Scotland are to be paid the real Living Wage of £8.45 for sleepover hours, meaning the Living Wage will now be received for all hours worked. Care workers in Scotland have received the Living Wage for non-sleepover hours since 1 October 2016. The Scottish Government has announced that social care staff working ‘sleepover’ hours […]
Posted 27 October 2017 Read More