My main contractor is not paying me

Your main contractor has not paid you, and the final date for payment looks to have passed. Before you treat it as late, check what was actually due. That depends on your application and any notices. A Payment Notice says what your main contractor will pay. A Pay Less Notice is the one it must send if it plans to pay less.

The gap often has a reason. A notice may have cut the sum, the valuation may be disputed, or part of it may have been paid. Sometimes the final date has not really passed yet. Sometimes it is simply late.

Chase the wrong figure and you hand your main contractor an easy argument. Jump straight to adjudication and you may spend money you did not need to. Wait too long and the balance grows while you keep funding the job.

First check that the final date for payment has really passed and what sum is actually due. Set your application beside any Payment Notice or Pay Less Notice, the proof of when each was sent, and your bank receipts. Then you chase the right figure, not a balance that is not yet due.

Late Payment Claim does that check, then demands the sum in writing with the interest the contract or the law allows. If it is still not paid, it prepares the suspension notice, or the adjudication where the sum justifies it. Late Payment Prevention then puts every final date in a diary, so the next late payment is chased the next morning.