Introduction

Need to make a payment after an employee has left?

Once an employee is processed as a leaver and received their P45, they won’t automatically appear in a pay run. However, there are times when you may need to issue an additional payment after their P45 has been given. In these cases, the payment must be processed as a Payment After Leaving.
Please note, these additional payments will not update the P45. And the employee’s tax code will automatically change to 0T Month1/Week1 for the Payment After Leaving.

Add employee to the pay run

You will need to locate the employee's record. If they no longer appear in the Employees list please click on Filter > select Leavers

You can find your employee in the list or search by typing their name or ID. Click on the employee name to go to their record.

From the top right corner select Payment After Leaving

For this to work, you’ll need an open pay run for the same frequency the employee was on. If the current pay run has already been completed or hasn’t started yet, you’ll see the below.

If you have an open pay run you will be shown the below warning:

See HMRC’s guidance for more details.

The employee will appear in the pay run allowing you to add the necessary payments and deductions.

How to Continue Employment? The steps are included in the End an Employment article.