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Updates: Statutory Payments Manual

2024

10 July 2024 published amendments

Miscellaneous: Statutory Payment rates

Page updated to reflect up to date weekly rates

8 March 2024 published amendments

Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) - general information: notification and time limits for the start of SPP

Page amended to reflect changes to Paternity Leave and Pay from 6 April 2024. Notification reduced to 28 days from 15 weeks and Leave (and pay) can now be taken in non-consecutive weeks

Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) - general information: conditions for entitlement for birth

Page updated to take account of new notification rules from 6 April 2026

Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) - general information: Paternity Pay Period (PPP)

Page amended to take account of changes to Paternity Leave and Pay from 6 April 2024, including non-consecutive single weeks and ability to take leave within 52 weeks of the birth, rather than 56 days.

27 February 2024 published amendments

Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP): general information - conditions for entitlement to SAP

Page updated to include the provision of proof, if requested.

2023

6 November 2023 published amendments

Paying and Recovering- SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP: SP paid in previous tax year

Page updated to reflect obsoletion of SP32 and new process.

Record Keeping - SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP: late recovery of Statutory Payments or NIC compensation

Page updated to remove reference to SP32 and introduce new process

Paying and Recovering - SSP: SSP paid in previous tax year

Page updated to remove reference to SP32

Paying and Recovering - SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP: how employers can recover

Page updated to remove references to SP32

2022

3 May 2022 published amendments

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): general information - evidence of sickness

Page amended to remove Coronavirus guidance

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): general information - period of incapacity for work (PIW) and waiting days (WDs)

Removal of coronavirus suspension of waiting days guidance apart from Northern Ireland, where this still persists

bolding Coronavirus (Northern Ireland) section

Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) - general information: what is SPBP

Removal of reference to SPBP not being available in Northern Ireland

7 February 2022 published amendments

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Statutory Payments Manual: update index

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2020

12 November 2020 published amendments

14 May 2020 published amendments

1 May 2020 published amendments

30 April 2020 published amendments

Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) - general information: contents

Additional pages for SPBP

Additional pages for SPBP

Additional pages for SPBP

29 April 2020 published amendments

2018