Your employer must give you a completed RP50 at least two weeks before your last day. Part B is the payment certificate.
The four checks
- Complete years only — verify the count against your actual start date
- The €600 weekly cap applied correctly, and only where your pay exceeds it
- The bonus week included — it is two weeks per year plus one
- Your start date correct
(2 weeks × years of service) + 1 additional week, with weekly pay capped at €600.
Ten years at €600 or above: 21 weeks = €12,600.
No cap on years
There is no limit on years of service — only the weekly ceiling applies. Part years count pro rata.
Confirm you qualify
- 104 weeks of continuous service
- Aged 16 or over
- Class A PRSI, fully insurable employment
- Genuine redundancy, not misconduct or resignation
Payment timing
Within two weeks of your employment ending.
If it is not paid
Serve form RP77 as a written demand. If the employer is solvent but refuses, bring a WRC claim within 1 year of dismissal — extendable to 2 years for reasonable cause.
If the employer is insolvent, apply to the Department of Social Protection for the Social Insurance Fund via the Gov.ie portal.
Statutory versus enhanced
Establish how much of any offer is statutory and how much is ex-gratia. The statutory part is fully tax-free; ex-gratia may be partly taxable.
Before signing anything
You cannot contract out of statutory redundancy. But you can waive claims — so check what a settlement asks you to give up, and get independent legal advice.
If you think the redundancy itself was wrong
That is a separate unfair dismissal claim, with a six-month deadline — shorter than the redundancy-payment window.
Where to go
The WRC for solvent employers and unfair dismissal. The Department of Social Protection for insolvency.