P60 not sent - does it matter?

I posted my FLR(M) application last week and two days later I received in the post my P60 for 2014 financial year, so I had not included my P60 with the application. I know that there is discretion in the rule when P60s have not been issued prior to submitting application such as in my case.

My wife is about to submit her application for bursary and was actually waiting for my P60 (she's studying Social Work), is it advisable that I send a copy of the P60 to the Home Office with a covering letter explaining why I could not send the original or I should just leave it, after all the P60 was not issued when the application was made, and also other evidence proving earning was submitted with the application.

Did you explain why you didn't include it?
You can send a copy but as you say if it wasn't issued then you couldn't submit it at the time...

No I didn't explain to them why it wasn't included. It wasn't issued when the application was posted. By law employers have up to May 31st to issue P60s.


Let me hear what others have to say then decide whether I should post a copy to them by the end of this week.

I would welcome comment from any of the moderators, especially from our esteemed Amber