Employers are responsible for paying SSP to employees
who, having been absent from work due to sickness.
Statutory Maternity
Pay (SMP):
Employers are responsible for paying SMP to employees who satisfy
the qualifying conditions. It is treated in exactly the same way
as SSP. A good proportion of SMP can be recovered.
Weekly benefit
2011/12
2010/11
Basic retirement pension
- single person
£102.15
£97.65
- married couple
£163.35
£156.15
Statutory pay rates - average weekly earnings £102 (£97) or over
Statutory Sick Pay
£81.60
£79.15
Statutory Maternity Pay
- First six weeks
90% of weekly earnings
- Next 33 weeks
£128.73*
£124.88*
Statutory Paternity Pay - two weeks
£128.73*
£124.88*
Statutory Adoption Pay - 39 weeks
£128.73*
£124.88*
* Or 90% of weekly earnings if lower.
Additional Paternity Pay and Leave may be available for a child due or adoptions matched on or after 3 April 2011.
