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As far as I'm aware, that's just how it works. However you split your TNP1/TNP2, it just applies 80% of the sum of those two as the OPP. Providers could actually abuse that loophole to get more funding, so I'm surprised it works that way. You can accidentally benefit from it if a restart student gets to gateway then doesn't sit the EPA, and the 20% completion payment (not achievement) you lose is way smaller than the Assessment Price.
Ruth Canham-James Are you able to please help us with a similar query? The learner is out of funding and therefore the new employer is only liable for the remaining EPA cost, which is higher than the remaining 20% (due to a previous change of employer) How do we record this as TNP4 recorded on his ILR, is producing a dlock? We can't add a TNP3 as there are no training costs left? Any guidance as always is very much appreciated Ruth
Since the TNP4 isn't going to be true anyway (since your EPA price is higher than the funds left in the band), you might as well make it slightly more wrong and record £1 as TNP3 and the rest as TNP4. I can't think of any other solution.
It's unusual that the EPA price is more than 20% of band max. Was there some RPL? We often have it where the 20% is mostly assessment, but a bit of OPP.
Tom Sumnall
Funding for withdrawn learner, returning to learning
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Good afternoon
We have a learner that was recorded as withdrawn in the 22-23 contract year, but has since been back in touch to ask to restart the same programme earlier this month (25-26 year). Their initial time on programme exhausted all of their OPP funding, so we have an approved DAS funding reservation for the achievement fee only from their new employer, for the current restart. I have uploaded their updated ILR as part of R02, but the 'Apps indicative Earning Report' is indicating that a significant amount will be deducted for their OPP earnings in this period, rather than showing the expected £0.
I'd be very grateful if someone might suggest why this is happening and perhaps indicate what I can do to correct this please? Perhaps an indicator code on the ILR is missing? The deduction for this month is around three times the achievement fee that is remaining, so we'll be excluding the learner from the claim if it can't be resolved.
Thank you in advance.