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Yep, this happens to us a lot, and we just get multiple months' funding in the first month in which they were in the ILR. Same if you get a data lock that stops payment. Once you fix it, you get all due payments the next month.
Just watch out that this doesn't happen at the year crossover. If you had an apprentice that started in July, and the enrolment isn't in the ILR and data lock free by R14, you'll never get that July payment. They don't back date payments cross academic years.
Jessicar - Yes! It hasn't yet happened to us, but I spotted this right at the beginning of the reforms. It could push them into insufficient funds, and they would have to pay 5% of the excess, or we'd get no completion 20%. I made it really clear to our apprenticeship team that they must not give artificially long planned durations for this reason, as early completions could now be a problem for levy payers.
Ben James
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Please settle a debate..
Based on the fact that payments are calculated by equally dividing the TNP (less 20% retention) by the duration in months (start date vs. PED), if a provider is late processing a start on the Apprenticeship Service (let's say their start date was August, but it wasn't processed until December for some reason), would the first payment subtracted from an Employer's digital account be larger to account for the months missed, or would all payments from the date they're processed be recalculated to account for the lateness and to ensure they're all the same amount?