Statutory sick pay and contractual sick pay

navyguy1965

Hi Guys and Girls,

I am new to the world of statutory sick pay and contractual sick pay being an ex-serviceman. I wonder if anyone can answer my question. well here goes

I have been off works for eight weeks now. I am entitled to contractual sick pay for 20 weeks which is far better than statutory sick pay so I have 12 weeks left before this stops. I believed maybe wrongly that after my 20 weeks I would then move onto statutory sick pay for 28 weeks. However on receipt of my payslip yesterday. The company had taken £280 pounds off of my salary but then gave it back to me under the guise of statutory sick pay .. |Is this right way to go about things ?. I expected that I would receive my full salary for twenty weeks and then if I was still off work I would start to receive statutory sick pay for twenty-eight weeks. Now my concern is that they have paid me ssp too early instead of paying me my contractual sick pay and therefore I was wrong in assuming that i would get twenty weeks contactual pay followed by 28 weeks sssp Hope this make sense

Takeaway_Addict

No, it normally runs alongside contractual sick pay, it used to be that the employer could claim SSP back from the government but that stopped in April

navyguy1965

Hi Takeaway addict,

Very many thanks for clearing that up for me

Takeaway_Addict

Thinking about it, because SSP is the legal minimum they might have done it as they have on your wage slip to show they are doing the minimum legally and then the extra on top. To avoid any claims against them later on.

navyguy1965

I am just happy that they are not doing anything underhanded and that this is the normal way to do things

Takeaway_Addict

navyguy1965 wrote: »

I am just happy that they are not doing anything underhanded and that this is the normal way to do things

No seems all ok and20 weeks full pay is excellent really.

TrickyDicky101

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

No, it normally runs alongside contractual sick pay, it used to be that the employer could claim SSP back from the government but that stopped in April

Are you sure about this? Back in 2004 when I was responsible for a payroll function we were unable to claim back SSP - it was simply a cost to the company (unlike say SMP which could be reclaimed).

chrisbur

Any contractual payments made to you by your employer which are equal to or greater than a day's SSP are considered to have fulfilled your employer's SSP obligations. The SSP can then be off-set against that payment. This must though be done on a daily basis, each day's SSP can only be off-set against a payment made for that same day.
So for example if your company sick pay ended two weeks into your month's salary then you would be due two weeks' company sick pay (which would include SSP for that time) plus SSP for the rest of the month (which cannot be off-set)

TrickyDicky101

blondebubbles wrote: »

Some employers could claim back depending on the level of Class 1 NIC

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/employers/recover-ssp.htm

Thank you - that makes sense. At the time the SSP in question would have been nowhere near that level.