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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 checkbox.
8. If applicable, select the Welfare to work checkbox.
9. Enter any required comments.
10. Go to the Qualifying Days and check the employee's working pattern is correct.
    
    TIP:

    This is a Sunday before the employee became sick. Find out more in our Holiday and absence qualifying day patterns article. 

11. To check the employee's earnings, click Earnings during set period.
12. Click OK.
13. Check that the correct qualifying day pattern appears.
14. Check the employee's average earnings during the set period is correct.
15. Click Save, then Close.

Ongoing sickness

If the sickness is ongoing and continues into the next pay period, follow the steps to add more sickness absence.