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Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme: Update 30 October 2020
HMRC has updated its guidance in relation to the Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) Rebate Scheme, to confirm that employers may ask employees to provide a ‘shielding note’ or letter from their doctor or health authority, because employees are not required to provide a doctor's fit note in order for their employer to make a claim.
Individuals who are advised to shield are told to do so because they’re at high risk of severe illness from coronavirus.
The most recent guidance on payment of SSP for shielding is that shielding is still grounds for payment of SSP in areas in which local lockdown is being imposed, but has been paused on a national level. How this translates in terms of covid risk rate tiers is not yet known but if employees are provided with a shielding note or letter then this can be sufficient grounds to pay SSP.
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The Statutory Sick Pay extension in Wales 10 November 2020
The Welsh Government has announced that there will be additional support for any care workers who need to refrain from working due to the fact that they either have, or suspect that they have, COVID-19, or in scenarios where they are required to self-isolate. The Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) enhancement scheme will provide funding to enable employers to pay any eligible workers at their full rate of pay if they cannot work because of coronavirus. It is intended to erase the financial disadvantage to care workers of staying away from work, meaning that, in turn, the most vulnerable citizens will be protected. The scheme will run until 31 March 2021.
Eligibility for the scheme is dependent on a person’s role, their type of employment, the reasons for their absence and the amount of sick pay they ordinarily get.
Eligible roles include:
• Employees of registered care homes (including children’s homes) • Employees of domiciliary care services • Agency care workers or agency nurses (when undertaking work booked by a registered care home or domiciliary care service) • Bank or pool staff when booked to undertake a series of shifts • Contracted staff providing daily input into care homes and having substantial contact with residents (for example catering staff) • Personal assistants paid through direct payments
Extensive information regarding eligible roles can be found here.
Employees can work either full-time or part-time, work on a zero-hours, permanent or temporary contract, work from a care agency, be bank or pool staff, or be self-employed. They must be absent from work because they either have symptoms of, or test positive for, Covid-19, be self-isolating following instruction from the NHS Wales Test Trace Protect Service or be self-isolating because a member of their household is self-isolating.
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