{"id":30381,"date":"2021-06-25T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=30381"},"modified":"2021-06-25T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:21:50","slug":"government-incentive-payments-for-hiring-a-new-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=30381","title":{"rendered":"Government incentive payments for hiring a new apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/people_GOV_UK_open_government_licence_v30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28601\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/people_GOV_UK_open_government_licence_v30.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Applications open for incentive payments for employers who hire a new apprentice between 1 April 2021 and 30 September 2021.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration purposes only &#8211; Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 incentive payment is in addition to the \u00a31,000\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 spend it on anything to support your organisation\u2019s costs\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Education and Skills Funding Agency writes:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"apply-for-the-hire-a-new-apprentice-payment\">Apply for the hire a new apprentice payment<\/h2>\n<p>You can apply for new apprentices who joined your organisation from 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021. You must\u00a0<a class=\"govuk-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/manage-apprenticeship-funds\">set up an apprenticeship service account.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incentive payment is in addition to the \u00a31,000 employers already receive for hiring an apprentice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>aged 16 to 18 years old<\/li>\n<li>under 25 with an education, health and care plan or who has been in the care of their local authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To receive the full payment, the apprenticeship must last for at least one year.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"apprentices-who-joined-your-organisation-from-1-april-2021\">Apprentices who joined your organisation from 1 April 2021<\/h2>\n<p>You will receive \u00a33,000 for new apprentices of any age who have an employment start date of 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>They must have an apprenticeship start date of 1 April 2021 to 30 November 2021.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"apprentices-who-joined-your-organisation-before-1-april-2021\">Apprentices who joined your organisation before 1 April 2021<\/h2>\n<p>The application deadline for these apprentices has closed.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-you-can-use-the-payment-for\">What you can use the payment for<\/h2>\n<p>The payment is different to apprenticeship levy funds, so you can spend it on anything to support your organisation\u2019s costs. For example, on uniforms, your apprentice\u2019s travel or their salary. You do not have to pay it back.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"eligibility\">Eligibility<\/h2>\n<p>You can only apply for new apprentices who joined your organisation from 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot apply for an existing employee who joined your organisation before 1 April 2021, even if they started an apprenticeship after this date.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-apply\">How to apply<\/h2>\n<p>You can\u00a0<a class=\"govuk-link\" href=\"https:\/\/accounts.manage-apprenticeships.service.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"external\">apply for the incentive payment<\/a>\u00a0after you add new apprentices to your apprenticeship service account.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"when-youll-get-paid\">When you\u2019ll get paid<\/h2>\n<p>We cannot make any payments until we\u2019ve received and verified your organisation and finance details. This could take up to 80 days and we may contact someone from your organisation.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll make the payment in 2 equal instalments for each apprentice. The first payment is due after an apprentice completes 90 days of their apprenticeship and the second is due after 365 days.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll make payments by Bacs on the 14th working day of the month. It usually takes 3 working days to process.<\/p>\n<p>After you apply, you can view applications, estimated payment dates and check the status of each payment in your apprenticeship service account.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"get-help\">Get help<\/h2>\n<p>You can either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"govuk-link\" href=\"https:\/\/help.apprenticeships.education.gov.uk\/hc\/en-gb\/#contact-us\" rel=\"external\">contact us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"govuk-link\" href=\"https:\/\/help.apprenticeships.education.gov.uk\/hc\/en-gb\/sections\/360003793119-Coronavirus\" rel=\"external\">find out what we\u2019re doing to support apprenticeships during the coronavirus outbreak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"govuk-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/how-to-take-on-an-apprentice\">find out how to take on an apprentice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/incentive-payments-for-hiring-a-new-apprentice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications open for incentive payments for employers who hire a new apprentice between 1 April 2021 and 30 September 2021. image: for illustration purposes only &#8211; Open Government Licence v3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30382,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30381\/revisions\/30382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}