Darren O'Neill

Change of Employer Past Planned End Date

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We have an Apprentice who has already past their planned end date but still has over a year of learning left to do. The learner has recently changed employer, but the gap between employers was more than 30 days.

We are unsure how to process this in our ILR. We would normally withdraw and re-start (if change of employer is over 30 days), but given that they are already out of funding, would we be able to re-start them? How can we ensure that we still receive the 20% completion payment?

Thanks

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Martin West

It’s a withdrawal and restart and you still have the 20% completion payment that will be split between the EPA cost and remaining training costs.

Ruth Canham-James

If it wasn't redundancy, and the gap was over 30 days, you have to withdraw, that's the rules. It is an interesting one though, as essentially this gives you an opportunity to now restart with a much longer Planned End Date, there's nothing stopping you doing that. Assuming you charge the new employer just the 20% of the original price, 80% of that amount would then be spread over a few months as on programme payments, with 20% of that 20% being the new completion element. Just code the new period as restart, but without an original start date.