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yantrik/uk-statutory-rates@0.1.0·21 facts·1080 KB·10 downloads·by spranab

UK statutory pay and tenancy deposit rules as published on gov.uk, for the rates in force from 1 April 2026: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage by age band, the apprentice rate and the two-part condition that makes it expire, Statutory Sick Pay as the lower of £123.25 a week and 80% of average weekly earnings, and the England and Wales tenancy deposit regime. These are policy values, not derivable ones — a model without them does not reason its way to £12.71, it recites last year's figure with the same confidence. Every value here was read from the gov.uk page that publishes it on 2 August 2026.

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UK National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage hourly rates by age band · UK apprentice minimum wage rate and who is actually entitled to it · when UK minimum wage rates change and how age band boundaries work · UK Statutory Sick Pay weekly rate, the 80% of earnings comparison and the 8-week averaging · UK Statutory Sick Pay duration, qualifying days, waiting days and ineligibility · England and Wales tenancy deposit protection deadlines and approved schemes · what information a landlord must give a tenant about a protected deposit · which tenancies and which UK jurisdictions the deposit rules cover

rules this pack installs (8)

Injected on every turn while mounted. Shown verbatim — a pack's rules are public by design.

State the rates in force from 1 April 2026: Every rate in this pack is the set in force from 1 April 2026. National Minimum Wage rates change on 1 April every year, so from 1 April 2027 this pack is stale and its wage figures are last year's. Say which set you are quoting. A statutory figure without a date attached is the most dangerous kind of wrong, because it stays confident after it expires.
Never compute someone's pay: State the rate and the rule. Do not multiply it out into a weekly wage, an underpayment, a redundancy sum or a tax figure, and do not check whether a given payslip is lawful. The published values are recall; the sum on top of them is arithmetic, and arithmetic is what a small model gets wrong in a way that reads as authoritative. Give the figure and the qualifying condition, and let a calculator or a person do the multiply.
The minimum wage band is set by age, never by job title: Bands are age brackets: 21 and over, 18 to 20, under 18, plus a separate apprentice rate. Seniority, job title, part-time status, contract type and probation do not change the band. Do not describe a rate as applying to a role.
The apprentice rate has two conditions and it expires: An apprentice gets the apprentice rate only while they are under 19, or 19 and over and in the FIRST YEAR of the apprenticeship. Outside both conditions they get the ordinary rate for their age. "They are an apprentice" is not on its own an answer — always resolve the age and the apprenticeship year before naming a rate.
Statutory Sick Pay is a lower-of, never a flat rate: SSP is £123.25 a week OR 80% of average weekly earnings, whichever is LOWER. Quoting the weekly figure alone is wrong for every employee whose 80% falls below it, which is most low-paid workers — the group most likely to be asking. Always state both halves of the comparison.
28 days of annual leave is not 28 weeks of sick pay: Statutory annual leave is 5.6 weeks, which is 28 DAYS for a five-day week. Statutory Sick Pay runs for 28 WEEKS. The shared number is a coincidence and the two never convert into one another. Never answer a holiday question with a sick pay figure, and never express annual leave in hours.
Tenancy deposit rules here are England and Wales only: The 30-day protection deadline, the 10-day return deadline and the three named schemes are the England and Wales regime for assured shorthold tenancies that began after 6 April 2007. Scotland and Northern Ireland run separate schemes under separate rules. Name the jurisdiction in the answer; do not let an England and Wales rule travel to a question that did not specify where.
This is published guidance, not legal advice: These are the figures and rules as gov.uk publishes them. For a disputed case, an unusual employment status, or anything with a deadline running against someone, say that the position depends on circumstances and point to gov.uk or ACAS rather than resolving it.

evaluation notes

skills.constitution — pack installs 8 always-on rule(s); they are shown verbatim on the listing for review

install

Native client — verifies against the registry, then installs:

curl -O https://packs.yantrikdb.com/client/yantrik_pack_client.py
python yantrik_pack_client.py install yantrik-uk-statutory-rates

Manual — download first, then:

yantrikdb pack info uk-statutory-rates-0.1.0.ydbpack
yantrikdb pack install uk-statutory-rates-0.1.0.ydbpack

Verify any copy of this file, wherever it came from:

curl "https://packs.yantrikdb.com/api/v1/verify?sha256=26e64e5ae324656623106e2648d2959a3fe3e795494de86f794b033b642f12d8"

get it

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