Statutory sick pay (SSP)

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Paying statutory sick pay (SSP)

Get Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) Background information

Before you pay SSP

SSP cannot calculate correctly unless you complete the Qualifying Days of the week in question. If a qualifying rota applies, you have to calculate one week at a time.

  1. Select the payroll company.

  2. Go to the Employee menu.

  3. Select Alter Current Employee.

  4. Select the employee.

  5. Select the SSP Tab.

    The employee record on the SSP tab shwoing the qualifying days.

  6. Select the days on which the employee is to qualify for SSP.

If the qualification is in the form of a rota, as in shift-working, enter the number of weeks (No. Wks column) for which that pattern is to operate. You can have up to eight weekly patterns.