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Enter Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (SNCP) via the employee record
Description

SNCP is a new statutory parental payment effective from 6 April 2025. Follow the steps below to process this payment.

If you'd like to find out more about this payment before you process it, visit our SNCP entitlement and eligibility article.

Cause
Resolution

You can't process SNCP for an employee if they're currently receiving another statutory parental payment.

If you're currently paying a parental payment, for example maternity or paternity, process the SNCP when the parental payment ends. ▼ View an example.

A mother is already off work and receiving Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), which they've planned to take for 30 weeks.

The mother is eligible for SNCP, and decides to take four weeks.

In this example, process the 30 weeks of SMP in each pay run as normal, then process the four weeks of SNCP immediately afterwards.

Set up SNCP

To be able to pay SNCP, you first need to enter the SNCP details.

  1. Double-click the relevant employee on your employee list.
  2. Select the Absence tab, then the S.N.C.P. button.
     NOTE: The SNCP button is only available if your process date is 06/04/2025 or after, as this is when the legislation takes effect. 
  3. Enter the Actually Born On and First Day of Neonatal Care dates. If there's more than 28 days between these dates, a message advises you that the employee isn't eligible for SNCP.
  4. Ensure the Manual Statutory Neonatal Pay Calculations checkbox is clear.
  5. Select the Declaration received checkbox to confirm you've received 'form NEO3'.
  6. Select Auto Calc to calculate the employee's average weekly gross pay.
  7. A prompt could appear that holiday payments made in or near the relevant period affect the average earnings, click OK.
  8. Select the 8 Weeks Gross tab if you'd like to check the values that make up the average weekly gross pay. 
  9. To check the employee's entitlement select the Entitlement tab.
     TIP: Your software also updates the Previously Paid values in this tab with any SNCP payments you process. 

Pay SNCP

Now that you've entered the SNCP details, you can process the required payments.

  1. Double-click the employee on your employee list.
  2. Select the Absence tab, then the S.N.C.P. button.
  3. Enter the Ended Work for NCPP date. This is the last date the employee works before they'd like their SNCP to begin.
  4. Enter the number of weeks they're taking under the No of Weeks column.
  5. Select OK, then OK.
  6. Select Save, then Close.

Your software calculates the SNCP due when you next process this employee's payroll. You can see the SNCP amount due in the enter payments - summary tab.

What's next

If required, you can adjust normal payments to accommodate statutory pay for the period due to the SNCP payment. 

Submit an EPS at the end of the tax month to notify HMRC of any SNCP. Find out more in our when to submit an employer payment summary (EPS) article.

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