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HMRC has published the minutes of the Statutory Payments Consultation Group meeting of 3 July 2008. Among the matters discussed are the following points of interest: Continue reading
Posted November 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
By means of a minor change to the Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, agency workers are entitled to be paid SSP from the start of their employment. The change is effective from 27 October 2008 and corrects a situation that came to light when the Court of Appeal, in a decision published on 27 June 2007, ruled that the statutory sick pay (SSP) legislation excluded agency workers from entitlement to SSP if they had less than three months’ continuous employment.
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Posted November 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
On 27 October, Income Support was replaced by Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for new applicants. As ESA does not require employers to provide employees’ sickness and SSP history, the new simplified SSP1 form, used to advise employees of the reason the employer cannot pay, or continue to pay, SSP, came into use from that date.
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Posted November 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
A new version of changeover form SSP1 comes into use from 27 October 2008.
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Posted September 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Courtesy of the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP), we are able to provide sight of the new version of form SSP1 that will come into use from 27 October 2008. It must not be used by employers before that date.
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Posted July 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Amendments have been made to the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 that make it possible for the administration of SSP to be simplified in two respects from 27 October 2008.
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Posted July 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is running a pilot study to assess the use of electronically generated medical statements (form Med 3) as an alternative to the handwritten version that is currently used.
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Posted July 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
