Updates: Statutory Payments Manual

2024

8 March 2024 published amendments

Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) - general information: notification and time limits for the start of SPP

Page amended to reflect changes to Paternity Leave and Pay from 6 April 2024. Notification reduced to 28 days from 15 weeks and Leave (and pay) can now be taken in non-consecutive weeks

Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) - general information: conditions for entitlement for birth

Page updated to take account of new notification rules from 6 April 2026

Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) - general information: Paternity Pay Period (PPP)

Page amended to take account of changes to Paternity Leave and Pay from 6 April 2024, including non-consecutive single weeks and ability to take leave within 52 weeks of the birth, rather than 56 days.

27 February 2024 published amendments

Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP): general information - conditions for entitlement to SAP

Page updated to include the provision of proof, if requested.

2023

6 November 2023 published amendments

Paying and Recovering- SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP: SP paid in previous tax year

Page updated to reflect obsoletion of SP32 and new process.

Record Keeping - SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP: late recovery of Statutory Payments or NIC compensation

Page updated to remove reference to SP32 and introduce new process

Paying and Recovering - SSP: SSP paid in previous tax year

Page updated to remove reference to SP32

Paying and Recovering - SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP: how employers can recover

Page updated to remove references to SP32

2022

3 May 2022 published amendments

7 February 2022 published amendments

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