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Worth an hour of your time this week
Not having your terms, not knowing your notice and not checking deductions is the position that costs people money quietly — through unclaimed holiday, wrong tax codes and unenforced notice.
Request the written statement, read it once, and check a payslip line by line. Both are free and both routinely turn up something worth having found.
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