Is it possible there are arrears from last week? If you're paid weekly, the first deduction should have showed up last week - about 4 days' worth of it - and that could explain the anomaly. The deduction should then go to the normal rate from next week on.
Actually, in that case it should not have arrears; it should actually be a day or two lower than usual.
When you say you're paying more, is it gross or net? I could understand a minor anomaly if it's net (for example, if you're just on the margin of the higher tax rate and it does not all attract the higher rate of relief), but if it's a difference in the gross deduction something sounds wrong. If you've arranged your tax-free allowances so that you have the bulk of them and if your spouse is in the private sector, it may now make sense to re-assign those allowances to maximise the tax relief on the pension levy. This would depend on what pension contribs the spouse is making and so on, but is worth considering and perhaps running the numbers on.
If you want to PM me re the current level of deduction (not the broader issue - that's far too specialist), feel free: I'm no expert, but I'm reasonably good at making sense of these things!
Send you a PM. Seems odd that the other guy would have a different amount - possibly explainable if there was overtime, though, because that's subject to the levy. Even though it isn't pensionable. Or maybe he stole a march on you, argued for an extra point on an incremental scale, and has never admitted it!
[I'm not really serious, but those sorts of things have been very contentious in the past. Random worker: "She's paid more than me and we started at the same time!" Personnel: "Yes, but she had three years' experience in company X and a relevant post-grad qualification." Random worker: "It's still not fair, because, well just because!"... and it just goes downhill from there. You get the idea!]
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