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The following item is appreciatively reproduced from the 1 September issue of News On Line, the newsletter of the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP).
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Posted September 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
In October 2007, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published a report detailing changes to SSP rules that had been recommended by an SSP Review Working Group. A number of the recommendations were introduced in October 2008, with the effect that employers are not required to pass SSP-related information to the next employer, and entitlement to SSP in a new job does have to take absences in the previous employment into consideration.
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Posted June 8th, 2009 | No Comments »
If an employee is not entitled to SSP or entitlement to SSP runs out, employers are required to complete the relevant sections of form SSP1, which includes an indication of the reason why SSP cannot be paid or can no longer be paid, and issue it to the employee. The employee may be entitled to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) instead.
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Posted March 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
The Department for Work and Pensions has published all of the benefit rates that will apply from 6 April 2009. As with the recently-announced tax allowance and NICs threshold increases from that date, the rates are being increased by 5%, i.e. the rate of retail inflation at September 2008.
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Posted December 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
HMRC has published the minutes of the Statutory Payments Consultation Group meeting of 3 July 2008. Among the matters discussed are the following points of interest: Continue reading
Posted November 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
By means of a minor change to the Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, agency workers are entitled to be paid SSP from the start of their employment. The change is effective from 27 October 2008 and corrects a situation that came to light when the Court of Appeal, in a decision published on 27 June 2007, ruled that the statutory sick pay (SSP) legislation excluded agency workers from entitlement to SSP if they had less than three months’ continuous employment.
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Posted November 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
On 27 October, Income Support was replaced by Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for new applicants. As ESA does not require employers to provide employees’ sickness and SSP history, the new simplified SSP1 form, used to advise employees of the reason the employer cannot pay, or continue to pay, SSP, came into use from that date.
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Posted November 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
A new version of changeover form SSP1 comes into use from 27 October 2008.
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Posted September 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Courtesy of the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP), we are able to provide sight of the new version of form SSP1 that will come into use from 27 October 2008. It must not be used by employers before that date.
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Posted July 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Amendments have been made to the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 that make it possible for the administration of SSP to be simplified in two respects from 27 October 2008.
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Posted July 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
