Guidance

Academy funding payments: remittance advice guide

Information to help academies understand the remittance advice notes that accompany their funding payments.

From:

Department for Education

Published:

1 September 2015

Last updated:

1 October 2026

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1 October 2026
Updated for the 2026 to 2027 academic year.
22 September 2025
We have updated the remittance advice guide for 2025 to 2026.
9 September 2024
We have revised the academies remittance advice guide so that links now take users to the latest (2024 to 2025) information. We have also removed the obsolete section on COVID-19 related funding.
27 September 2023
We have updated the remittance guidance to include links to the allocations and other related guidance for 2023 to 2024
6 September 2022
We have updated the remittance guidance following changes to activity descriptors and have included links to guidance for 2022 to 2023.
30 September 2021
Academies remittance advice guide updated to include links to general annual grant allocation, high needs funding, free school meals and teachers pay grant allocations guidance for 2021 to 2022.
11 November 2020
Page updated for the 2020 to 2021 year
16 September 2019
Academies remittance advice guide updated with links to allocations guidance for 2019 to 2020
4 September 2018
We have updated this guidance with information for the 2018 to 2019 academic year.
19 September 2017
We've updated this for the 2017 to 2018 academic year
26 August 2016
Updated information and links for the 2016 to 2017 academic year.
1 September 2015
First published.

Applies to England

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Information on the ‘activity descriptions’ used in the monthly remittance advice notes to academies.

This will help academies understand what funding they have received and why. It includes information on:

Academies get separate remittance advice notes for capital payments.