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Minimum Wage and Statutory Pay Obligations
5. Adoption Pay
5.1 Adoption leave and statutory adoption pay (SAP) is available to employees who adopt, or one member of a couple where the couple adopt jointly.
- Most adopters are entitled to £124.88 a week or 90 per cent of average pay if lower for up to 39 weeks.
- Adopters who have average weekly earnings below the lower earnings limit for NICs (£97 a week) do not qualify for SAP.
- As with SMP and SPP, you can recover the amount of SAP you pay by offsetting the amount against NICs.
- Any additional adoption leave is unpaid.
- A right to paternity leave and pay for the other member of the couple, or an adopter's spouse or partner, is also available.
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