uk_statutory_redundancy_pay

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How much redundancy pay you’re owed — from your age, your years of service and your weekly pay, on the 2026 limits. Redundancy pay in the UK has a formula, and it is stranger than most people expect. Your years of service are weighted by how old you were during each of them — a year past 41 is worth a week and a half’s pay, a year in your twenties or thirties is worth one, a year before 22 is worth half. Only your last twenty count. And the weekly pay that feeds the formula is capped at £751 however much you actually earn, with £22,530 the ceiling on the whole payment. That cap moves every April, which is why a general-purpose AI will usually quote you last year’s. The age-weighting runs backwards from your leaving date and drops any year straddling a birthday into the lower band — a small fiddly rule, easy to state and easy to get wrong. Northern Ireland sets its own higher limits; those are here too.