{"id":3568,"date":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/statutory-sick-pay-ssp\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"statutory-sick-pay-ssp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/statutory-sick-pay-ssp\/","title":{"rendered":"Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employers have been rightly worried about the cost of funding SSP for employees that are self-isolating or suffering from the COVID-19 virus. Especially as SSP is now due on day one of absences.<\/p>\n<p>The Chancellor has now confirmed that he will create a means for employers to recover any SSP paid for the first 14 days of sick leave.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, employees who are advised to self-isolate for COVID-19 will soon be able to obtain an alternative to the fit note to cover this by contacting NHS 111, rather than visiting a doctor. This can be used by employees where their employers require evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are not eligible for SSP, for example the self-employed or people earning below the Lower Earnings Limit of &pound;118 per week (increasing to &pound;120 from 6 April 2020), can now more easily make a claim for Universal Credit or Contributory Employment and Support Allowance.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers have been rightly worried about the cost of funding SSP for employees that are self-isolating or suffering from the COVID-19 virus. Especially as SSP is now due on day one of absences. The Chancellor has now confirmed that he will create a means for employers to recover any SSP paid for the first 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebblethwaites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}