UK statutory redundancy pay: the weekly cap is £751 from 6 April 2026, not £719

The cap on a week's pay used to calculate statutory redundancy in Great Britain rose to £751 on 6 April 2026. That figure comes from the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2026 (SI 2026/310), which sets the s.227 limit under the Employment Rights Act 1996 and states it comes into force on 6 April 2026, replacing the previous £719. GOV.UK now confirms it directly: if you were made redundant on or after 6 April 2026, your weekly pay is capped at £751 and the maximum statutory redundancy pay is £22,530.

This cap moves every April, which is why answers online and in chat assistants drift a year or two behind — £700, then £719, now £751. Any figure that isn't tied to the date you were made redundant is unreliable, because the cap that applies is the one in force on that date, not today's. Northern Ireland is a separate regime under its own legislation, with higher limits: £783 a week and £23,490 maximum.

The part most guides skip is that the payment isn't a flat multiple of the cap. You count backward through your most recent service — a maximum of 20 years — and each year is weighted by how old you were during that year: 1.5 weeks for a year worked at 41 or over, 1 week from 22 to 40, and half a week under 22. A year that straddles a birthday falls into the lower band. So the £22,530 maximum only applies to someone with 20 qualifying years all worked at 41-plus; most real calculations land well below it, and the one input that decides your number is your age in each of those counted years, not just your salary.