Policy News Journal - 2015-16

HMRC is looking to improve the Statutory Payment process and is seeking the views of CIPP members. Focusing initially on Statutory Maternity Pay and how employers administer this, HMRC want to gain an insight into the areas that are proving problematic or where the process is trouble free. HMRC has provided a short series of questions which the CIPP’s policy team has used to create a short survey . The survey should take no longer than five minutes to complete and will close on 14 September. Your responses will help to improve the employer experience of dealing with Statutory Maternity Pay and so we would be grateful if you could take the time to complete this survey and give HMRC the information it needs to improve the Statutory Payment process. Thank you

Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) 28 August 2015

HMRC has amended the Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) section of the manual calculation guidance for SMP.

Follow the link below to view the guide.

Statutory Maternity Pay: manually calculate your employee's payments

Statutory Paternity Pay - SPP1 form 9 November 2015

HMRC has published a new version of the form SPP1, used to tell employees why they are not entitled to Statutory Paternity Pay.

Statutory Paternity Pay: non-payment explanation (SPP1)

SPP1 – what has changed? 23 November 2015

You will recall that earlier this month we notified you that the Statutory Paternity Pay - SPP1 form had been updated .

We know that trying to keep track of the myriad of changes occurring across payroll practices for employment related income tax and NICs continues to challenge one and all, and so, knowing that you like a little extra detail, we took the opportunity to ask HMRC to expand a little on the note on GOV.UK. This form replaces form OSPP1 from 5 April 2015’ that came alongside the revised version of SPP1 and share with us a little more about their review processes.

“Annual Review

Statutory Payment (SP) forms on Gov.uk do not normally require year on year updates and we do not expect them to be impacted by the Government’s Autumn Statement in November/December. However, every autumn we still carry out a review of the forms to ensure that, for example, hyperlinks are working correctly, contact details are still valid and if miscellaneous changes are required. Most SP forms don’t require updating.

Form SPP1

In the case of form SPP1 it has been amended to reflect the changes to the notice period now required by employers when an employee applies for Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) for a baby. The notice period is now 15 weeks (previously it was 28 days) aligning it with the notice required for SP Leave. There is no change to notice for SPP for adoption.

There are three areas changed on this form:

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