New Statutory Sick Pay from April and SC2 form

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I will need to take time off for hernia op and claim statutory sick. Will I get 80% my normal pay? I work for a rubbish PAYE company so this is important. If I go back self employed only too, will I get 80%?

Also I thought I was entitled to sick for a day off last month. They sent me a SC2 form, what's that?

chrisbur

If your time off falls in the next tax year under the new SSP scheme then you would be paid "£123.25 or 80% of the employee’s average weekly earnings, whichever is lower." So £123.25 SSP is the maximum you will be entitled to under SSP rules. You employer may have a sick pay scheme which pays more than that; you would have to check with your employer for details of that.

The SC2 form is an SSP form for advising details of sickness, some employers use this as a general form for employees to fill in when they are off sick.

Regarding the one day sick payment if you are referring to your employer's sick pay scheme only your employer can advise on that. If you are referring to SSP you would first need what is called a PIW which is a period of four consecutive days during which you were sick and did no work. If that applied then the first day of SSP would be the fourth qualifying day, though this could be affected by any linking days. If you are referring to just one day off (eg worked Monday Sick Tuesday Worked Wednesday then this is ignored for SSP purpose and no SSP would be due. If you think you might have a PIW then would need dates of sickness (even if non working days, dates of normal working days, and dates of any sickness in past 8 weeks.

. "If I go back self employed only too, will I get 80%?" There is no SSP for self employed it covers only those classed as employees.

TimeLord1

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ask-your-employer-for-statutory-sick-pay#how-to-fill-in-the-sc2-form

SC2 you can read about above.