Updates: Statutory Payments Manual
2024
Miscellaneous: Statutory Payment rates
Page updated to reflect up to date weekly rates
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.
Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP): general information - conditions for entitlement to SAP
Page updated to include the provision of proof, if requested.
2023
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
SSPR Part 2 added and page transferred to Historical Information
Paying and Recovering - contents
update review date
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): general information - evidence of sickness
update review date
Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) - general information: Parental Bereavement Leave (PBL)
update review date and links
Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) - general information: notice and declaration time limits
update review date
Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) - general information: employee entitled to SSP
update review date
Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) -general information: employee not entitled to SPBP
update review date
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): general information - evidence of sickness
Page amended to remove Coronavirus guidance
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
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2020
Paying and Recovering - contents
Formatting
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): general information - evidence of sickness
Updated COVID-19 info
Covid-19 updates
COVID-19 updates
Added SPBP info
Change in Circumstances - working for an employer who is not liable for Statutory Payments
Added SPBP
Change in Circumstances - contractual liabilities when employment has ended
Added SPBP info
Paying and Recovering - contents
New pages added
Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) - general information: contents
Additional pages for SPBP
no change applied
Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) - general information: contents
Additional pages for SPBP
Additional pages for SPBP
Additional pages for SPBP
Paying and Recovering - contents
amended
2018
ASPP abolished no longer available
2017
ASPP is no longer available.
Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (ASPP) - general information: Additional Paternity Leave (APL)
ASPP abolished no longer available
ASPP abolished no longer available
ASPP abolished no longer available
ASPP abolished no longer available
Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (ASPP) - general information: employee not entitled to ASPP
ASPP abolished no longer available
Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (ASPP) - general information: (Historical Information) contents
SPm150100, SPM150200, SPM150300, SPM150400, SPM150500,SPM150600,SPM150700 - All pages archived.
Change in Circumstances - request to change start/end date of ASPP (Historical Information)
ASPP abolished
ASPP abolished
ASPP abolished