Quick SSP
Description

By law, you must pay Statutory sick pay (SSP) to all employees who are off work due to sickness and qualify for sick pay.

Sage 50 Payroll contains the most up to date legislation and simplifies processing sick pay by automatically calculating SSP for you.

You can record sick days quickly and keep track of employees' sickness using the Quick SSP option. Let's record SSP now.


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Process using Quick SSP

  1. Click Payroll, then Change Process Date.
  2. Enter the required process date, then click OK.
  3. Select the required employee, then click Employee.
  4. Click Recording Sickness
  5. Enter the first and last day of sickness.
  6. Click Calculate Entitlement.
  7. If applicable, select the Withhold SSP Payments check box.
  8. If applicable, select the Welfare to work check box.
  9. Enter any required comments.
  10. To view or amend click Qualifying Days and enter the date of the Sunday on which the first or only pattern starts.
     TIP: This should be a Sunday before the employee became sick. Find out more in our Holiday and absence qualifying day patterns guide. 
  11. To check the employee's earnings, click Earnings during set period
  12. Click OK.
  13. Check the correct qualifying day pattern appears.
  14. Check the employee's average earnings during the set period is correct.
  15. Click Save, then Close.
If the sickness is ongoing and continues into the next pay period, you can follow exactly the same procedure next time. When entering the first day of sickness, enter the day immediately after the last day of sickness recorded in the previous pay period. This includes any weekends and non working days. E.g. If the last day of sickness entered previously was Friday, enter the first day of sickness as the Saturday.

TIP: To check the last day of sickness entered previously, from the employee's record click the Absence tab. The sickness appears in the diary with a P symbol.


Next steps 

The SSP for the employee will now automatically show in their Enter Payments window. You're now ready to process your payroll and if required, Adjust normal payments to accommodate statutory pay.

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