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Hi Ben, you're correct, in that OPPs are based on apprenticeship planned to be on programme on the 'collection date' which is the last day of the month. The 80% is split by the number of collection dates.
Eg learner 1 starts on 1 Jan 2021 and planned to end on 30 Jan 2022. Number of collection dates is 12.
Learner 2 starts on 1 Jan 2021 and planned to end on 31 Jan 2022. Number of collection dates is 13.
You'll get the same amount of money, but divided and paid over different number of instalments.
Dave
Yup, details in the Apps Technical Guide:
Apprenticeship technical funding guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This is always fun when working out the new price for a change of employer, or a co-investment refund for a withdrawal or change or employer, especially when you can't remember how many days are in each month!
One of my team made a spreadsheet that automatically works out the end of month date and calculates accordingly. It also rounds new employer prices down to the nearest £10 (so we don't go over band max), and rounds refunds down to the nearest £10 (so we don't accidentally end up not charging enough co-investment).
Ruth Canham-James this is actually what we're in the process of trying to do haha! Fun times
Ben James
OPP dates
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Forgive the daft question.. but are OPPs calculated based on full months? So if an apprentice's PED is 21/4/22 for instance, we wouldn't expect an OPP for the month of April? From what I can see the final OPP for this apprentice was March (OPPs now total 14400 for an 18000 programme, so 80% of the total cost).. despite the PED being April