Apprenticeship Levy Transfer
Want to share your Levy?
If you aren't using all of your Apprenticeship Levy you can help other businesses by Sharing to other employers, The Apprenticeship Team at City College Norwich can help you find the right business to share with. You can contact us by calling 01603 773365.
Looking for shared Levy funding?
Information for Levy Receiving employers
As an employer, not paying into the government's Apprenticeship Levy Account, you are eligible to receive levy transfer funding to use to recruit an apprentices or up-skill a current employee. This means you will not need to pay the five per cent employer contribution fee as the transfer of funds will cover all assessment including the End Point Assessment fee.
How it works
- The transfer funds can only be used to fund apprenticeship training and assessment.
- The transferred funds can only be used for apprenticeship standards, not frameworks.
- As the receiving employer, you will need to set up an account on the Apprenticeship Service to receive the transfer and pay for apprenticeship training.
Before setting up your account, you will need your organisations Government Gateway user ID and password. Your payroll or finance department should have your organisations Government Gateway information if you do not know it already. (If your organisation has a payroll agent, do not use the agent’s login details.) You will need to register for the HMRC’s on-line service if you do not already have Government Gateway credentials.
As the receiving employer for the apprenticeship levy, you will need to sign an agreement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA): there will be a prompt to do this once you have set up your account.
- The funds are for an identified apprentice, along with the apprenticeship standard they are completing, and funding required.
- As the receiving employer, you will select the training provider.
- Once set up on the Apprenticeship Service, you will be able to manage and view transactions in your account and invite other members of your team to join the account
- If the apprenticeship stops e.g. the apprentice leaves the company, the funding will stop. You will not have to pay any funds back to the transferring employer.
- If the employer sending you the funds run out of funds, the ESFA will request you make a five per cent contribution to the cost of the apprenticeship training for each month the transfer employer does not have enough funds to transfer. The government will pay the remaining 95 per cent.
- The transfer can only fund up to the funding band maximum of the standard. If the cost of the training is more, you will have to pay the difference to the selected training provider
- There is no restriction on the number of apprentices you employ or use transfer funding for.
Things to consider
- As an employer you need to consider carefully if your organisation can support the training of an apprentice for the duration of the apprenticeship.
- An apprentice can add value to your company and enable you to grow your business.
- If you employ a young person between the age of 16-18 or 19-24 who has previously been in care or who has an Education, Health and Care Plan, you will receive £1,000 to support the apprentices training.
Further Information
New Anglia LEP can support you to understand fully the responsibilities of employing an apprentice, how the funding will support you and your business. They can guide you through the process of registering with the Government Gateway and support you to find the training provider that best suits your needs. Contact Alison Ward, the Apprenticeship Levy Transfer Coordinator for New Anglia LEP: email alison.ward@newanglia.co.uk or call 07901 207114
Government guidance on levy transfer: