Martin Locock

Employer top-up above funding band

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We have an apprenticeship standard programme where the agreed cost is above the funding band.  The employer pays us the top-up.   

Initially the ILR recorded the full agreed cost (regardless of funding bands) as TNP1 + TNP2.  Top-up payments were recorded as PMR1.

The current position for new starts is that the ILR should only show the funding band cost, and PMR1 records were not required for any top-up above the band.

Does anyone know when the rule changed?  I think 22-23  but I can't see an easy way to check. 

 

 

 

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Ben James

It was 22/23.

From the summary of changes that year:

Total Negotiated Price:  

Where your standard has a higher delivery cost than the assigned funding band (e.g. the funding band max is £10,000 but your delivery cost is £12,000) we no longer need you to report your delivery cost (i.e. the £12,000).  The price you enter into the ILR and the apprenticeship service must be the funding band maximum minus the cost of any relevant prior learning you have agreed with the employer, minus any additional adjustment agreed with the employer (e.g. large cohort discount).  The net effect of this change is that any savings (e.g. from RPL) are realised by the public purse rather than by the employer. The employer must still pay in full any difference between the top of the funding band and your delivery cost. 

Martin Locock

Perfect thanks.