Understanding SSP. Please help.

chrisbur

tigtag02 wrote: »

Your OH would have to have at least 6 QD (qualifying days) of the 7 available in one week. (This is because each linked sick period must be 4 days before SSP becomes payable and you say she will work 2 days (2+4 =6))

She would work 2 days and then need a sick note from the GP for the other 4/5 days EVERY WEEK

She would then be paid 2 days work and either 4 or 5 days SSP depending on the QD. This would equate to £48.37 or £51.82 respectively.

Every week would be linked so after 28 she would have exhausted her SSP entitlement.

Sorry have to disagree on this point.
To qualify for SSP you must have a PIW (period of incapacity to work ) and this is four consecutive days during which you are sick and no work is done. These four days can be qualifying or non qualifying days. If the gap between PIWs is 56 days or less then they are linked and counted as one PIW. So if qualifying days were Monday to Friday and non qualifying days were Saturday and Sunday, then if someone was sick from Wednesday to Sunday, they have a PIW and if it linked with a previous PIW during which the waiting days had been served then SSP would be due from Wednesday to Friday at three fifths of the weekly rate £43.53.
Also this would not count as a full week of SSP as in this case only three days were paid and with a 5 day qualifying week you have to be paid 5 days for it to count as a week off you 28 weeks.

As to the original question I do not know the answer, that is why I suggested the help line for the employer as I always found then very helpful when I used to do payroll, so what follows is only opinion.

This sort of situation must have arisen before with people needing treatment that would mean they could not work for a day or two on a regular basis but could do some light work between.
The rules of SSP put most of the responsibility of deciding if someone is sick or not onto the employer.
I have not seen anything saying that you can or that you cannot do this.
Doing it does fit in with the rules of SSP by linking PIWs.
So my opinion is that it would be fine to work for a couple of days and be sick the rest of the week, assuming that you were fit enough to work the two days and were to sick to work the rest of the week.
But would just repeat it is only my opinion and should be checked by the employer with the employer helpline.

tigtag02

I give up

Fran

snarffie wrote: »

You say that the information offered in this thread is 'accurate', which means that you dispute the advice from a CAB person who has already dealt with this situation before (I was VERY tenacious in asking if they were sure, as you can imagine). You also dispute the advice given by the benefits advisor in the charity that deals with my partners illness? My employer has even looked into it independently, coming to the same conclusion!

Hi snarffie,

You are right to trust CAB and charity advisers before people on a forum. No advice on here is guaranteed and Martin suggests that people do their own research too. CAB have stringent systems to ensure they give correct information and if they don't come up to standard they are not allowed to call themselves CABx. The charity you refer to probably has similar rules about giving advice.

I'm sorry you've had unsubstantiated advice with no proof thrust upon you and rude responses in this thread.

dmg24

Fran wrote: »

Hi snarffie,

You are right to trust CAB and charity advisers before people on a forum. No advice on here is guaranteed and Martin suggests that people do their own research too. CAB have stringent systems to ensure they give correct information and if they don't come up to standard they are not allowed to call themselves CABx. The charity you refer to probably has similar rules about giving advice.

I'm sorry you've had unsubstantiated advice with no proof thrust upon you and rude responses in this thread.

Kind of defeats the object of the Benefits board then ...

Perhaps the OP would not have received the more blunt responses had they not been so rude themselves?

Fran

***Boardguide comment***

snarffie,

I am closing this thread, please can you start another if you need more information. Thanks

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dmg24 wrote: »

Kind of defeats the object of the Benefits board then ...

Perhaps the OP would not have received the more blunt responses had they not been so rude themselves?

From the OP:

snarffie wrote: »

Any help on this would be greatky appreciated,
..............Thanks in advance.

snarffie wrote: »

Thanks for replying.

Examples from other posters:

tigtag02 wrote: »

As dmg has said you really aren't getting this are you?!

With the greatest of respect to CAB they are wrong.To be honest I'm not even sure why I have even bothered explaining the above because you're not going to believe me BUT it's right.

Think about it ~ a sick note actually states *I examined you today and advised you that YOU SHOULD REFRAIN FROM WORK*. Is that not clear enough?!?!?!

tigtag02 wrote: »

For the THIRD time (and thats just by me) she CANNOT work and claim SSP, no matter how many times you try to interperate HMRC's wording to make it fit what you want to hear!!!

dmg24 wrote: »

You are really not getting this..........
Perhaps in future you could consider the precious time and effort that people put into their replies, before writing them off. Indeed, if you were so sure that you were right, I don't see why you posted in the first place?