Statutory Sick Pay

chrisbur

sangie595 wrote: »

I do. I get full pay for six months and then half pay plus SSP for six months. SSP is only absorbed into the pay when on full pay as it would be foolish to pay someone more than normal to be off sick.

If this is really the case and your employer is paying SSP for a full year then they are not operating SSP correctly, SSP can only be paid for 28 weeks in any PIW.
However if the payment was spread over more than one PIW this would be possible, for example if you were off for long enough to get 6 months at full pay but returned to work before SSP ran out and were then off again after a break of over 8 weeks SSP would start over again and you could then have 6 months of half pay plus SSP if that fitted in with your employer's rules.

From the beginning there were a few rules regarding SSP but it was left pretty much to the employer to run the system. So long as the minimum SSP figure is paid for the days it is owed and for as long as it is meant to be paid the employer is free to pay just SSP or SSP as part of their sick pay if they pay it or added to their sick pay if they want. It is up to the employer to decide if the employee is incapable of work and to decide if they want medical evidence and if so what evidence is acceptable.

sangie595

chrisbur wrote: »

If this is really the case and your employer is paying SSP for a full year then they are not operating SSP correctly, SSP can only be paid for 28 weeks in any PIW. .

It really is the case. And it really is the case for my colleagues. How the employer does it isn't really something I have bothered about - it is what it is. But this is how it is done for us. So it is possible to do it this way. Our employer is certainly big enough to have the expertise to run the SSP system, so I doubt they are "doing it wrong". Not for 16,000+ employees. And it was also true of my employer before that, because I had eight months sickness and that was how it worked there too. That doesn't mean all employers manage their systems in this way. But it also doesn't mean that they don't either.

chrisbur

sangie595 wrote: »

It really is the case. And it really is the case for my colleagues. How the employer does it isn't really something I have bothered about - it is what it is. But this is how it is done for us. So it is possible to do it this way. Our employer is certainly big enough to have the expertise to run the SSP system, so I doubt they are "doing it wrong". Not for 16,000+ employees. And it was also true of my employer before that, because I had eight months sickness and that was how it worked there too. That doesn't mean all employers manage their systems in this way. But it also doesn't mean that they don't either.

Just about anything is possible if you are doing it wrong.