SSP1 Form not sent by employer

cromwell1599

I have been off work with a back injury since the end of last December and have been in receipt of SSP since my small amount of company sick pay ran out. I had calculated that my SSP would run out around the end of July, so a week or so ago I asked my manager to ring up to find out the exact date that it would end. She was told that it had already run out on the 2nd of July, they explained that they start paying SSP included in company sick pay straight away and a week that I had off last November with the onset of my current problem was also taken into account. However, the dates still don't add up and there is no mention of SSP on my payslip from January 25th, a full four weeks SSP is on my February payslip which would tally with my calculations that it should finish towards the end of this month. I got a full four week's SSP on my July payslip and owing to the cut off date and I believe this will be the last SSP I will get.

At the moment I have no way of checking whether they are right as they have not yet sent me an SSP1 form to try to claim ESA. I checked HMRC regulations and understand that an SSP1 form should be sent out to an employee no later than 7 days after SSP runs out, and if it's known in advance that the employee will still be off sick after SSP runs out it can be sent out as early as the 23rd week of the 28 week SSP period. My employer had this information as my last doctors note ran for two months from May 17th ( I have just been back to the doctors today to renew it ), so they can't say they didn't know.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable when I say that I surely should have been issued with this form by now, this is not a small company I'm talking about, it is a very large, well known national company with tens of thousands of employees, unfortunately they no longer have an HR department and lowly staff like myself have no number to call for information, they don't even have an employee handbook, my only point of contact is my manager and I feel I am now going around in circles there.

Can anyone advise me as to whether they are actually breaking any employment law by not sending me this form (which needs information on that only my employer can provide) or are they just dragging their heels and displaying a couldn't care less attitude that seems to be so prevalent nowadays.

epitome

HMRC has a helpline for employees having problems with getting an SSP1 from their employer.

I'm not saying that you should not be posting here, maybe someone here can help, I hope they do, but if you are stuck then call the HMRC.