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Today was my day to make my claim. I had already checked to see if I was eligible for the grant, and had been given today as the date to make my claim.<\/p>\nToday was my day to make my claim. I had already checked to see if I was eligible for the grant, and had been given today as the date to make my claim.<\/p>\n
The claim procedure was absolutely straightforward. Not a single hiccup along the way. The amount I was awarded was exactly what I\u2019d calculated I would receive \u2013 around \u00a33,500.<\/p>\n
(Update:<\/strong> claim made Friday, payment made immediately after midnight Tuesday).<\/p>\n I note that quite a few instructors have been confused by the request for the \u2018billing address\u2019 of the account money is being paid into. Clearly, these people have never actually purchased anything on the internet before, since you\u2019re asked for your billing address almost every time you make a purchase. Anyone still waiting to do their claim, the billing address is typically the address where the named person on the bank account you have specified lives (if you made it more complicated by living at a different address and using an account of someone else, you<\/strong> sort it out). In my case, it was straightforward \u2013 my billing address is always my home address \u2013 but it shouldn\u2019t be that<\/strong> hard to work it out even if you\u2019re one of those people who has a registered home address, a 2nd address, a business address, a holiday home, a caravan, a camper van, and a pony in a field somewhere. It isn\u2019t<\/strong> the address of your bank, although from what I have heard, HMRC has turned off its stupid filter to allow for those who have decided \u2013 and even tried to argue \u2013 that it is.<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> I am seeing lots of people making confusing statements about the way this payment is handled. To clarify.<\/p>\n You were given a date and time from which you could apply. Once you placed your claim \u2013 and assuming you entered the correct details in order to get paid \u2013 you were told it would take up to six days. That\u2019s six working<\/strong> days, and most banks don\u2019t include weekends as \u2018working days\u2019. Once your claim was made, the process was silent, and no emails relating to it\u2019s progress through the system were sent out.<\/p>\n Once the payment was made to your nominated bank account, you may or may not<\/strong> have received a text, email, or other notification via your bank\u2019s app. It would depend on the bank, the app, any settings you may or may not<\/strong> have set, or if you were still in the Dark Ages and insist on receiving paper statements through the post as if the internet didn\u2019t exist. For example, my payment was made at one minute after midnight on Tuesday, and my banking app sent me a notification several hours later \u2013 as it does for any deposit into or payment from my account. This notification (or otherwise), in whatever form, is from your bank, and not HMRC.<\/p>\n Some banks are faster than others. It depends on whether they handle the \u2018faster payments\u2019 system, for one thing. Mine does, and deposits appear almost instantly. But it can take some time \u2013 sometimes a day or two \u2013 for other banks to process payments.<\/p>\n Amusingly, I did get an \u2018update\u2019 email from HMRC, addressed to me personally and containing my claim reference number, confirming I was eligible, and that my payment was \u2018being processed\u2019 and should be expected within \u20183 working days\u2019. That arrived at 3am this morning \u2013 over a day after I\u2019d been paid! It didn\u2019t bother me in the slightest, nor do I feel the need to launch into an attack on anyone over it. However, it did add that you shouldn\u2019t phone HMRC until the specified time period has elapsed \u2013 and I would point out that \u2018six working days\u2019 from a claim made last Friday potentially runs until next Monday.<\/p>\n Finally, bank account details and email addresses are very, very precise items. If someone asks for your email address, they have to have precisely<\/strong> your email address \u2013 not something \u2018like\u2019 what you seem to remember it might be, sort of. If you give the wrong one, you won\u2019t get any emails. It\u2019s that simple. And the same with a bank account and sort code numbers. If you entered them incorrectly when you made your claim, there\u2019s a good chance the money has either gone to someone else (if the numbers matched) or the payment has failed. If you don\u2019t get your payment after six working days, you\u2019ll have to try and contact HMRC to sort it out. And don\u2019t be surprised if you have to claim all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was my day to make my claim. I had already checked to see if I was eligible for the grant, and had been given today as the date to make my claim. The claim procedure was absolutely straightforward. Not a single hiccup along the way. 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