Statutory Sick Pay for Employees

For More Information and Advice

Information for employers on how to operate the SSP scheme can be found in leaflet CA30 Statutory Sick Pay Manual for employers, available from any Inland Revenue office. A copy of the manual is also available on the IR website www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/employers

If you have any problems to do with SSP get in touch with your nearest Inland Revenue office. The address will be in the Phone Book.

If you are not entitled to SSP, get in touch with your Jobcentre Plus or social security office or in Northern Ireland the Social Security Agency who can explain what benefits, if any, you are entitled to. Claims to IB in Northern Ireland are dealt with by The Incapacity Benefits Branch, Castle Court, Belfast. Their telephone number is: Belfast 028 9033 6000.

You should also contact your nearest Jobcentre Plus or social security office if you cannot manage on the money you have coming in, as you may be entitled to IS and, or help with travel costs to and from hospital.

You may also be able to get help with rent and council tax or rates whether you are working or not. It depends on your income, your personal circumstances, your savings, and the amount of rent and council tax you have to pay. Ask at your local council offices for more information or, in Northern Ireland, contact your nearest Northern Ireland Housing Executive District Office or Rate Collection Agency Local Office.

Customers with alternative requirements

The Inland Revenue will do everything possible to make their services available to everyone, including leaflets in Braille, audio, large print and Welsh. For details of any of these services or if you have any other specific requirements please let them know.

Data Protection

The Inland Revenue is a Data Controller under the Data Protection Act. They hold information for the purposes specified in our notification made to the Data Protection Commissioner, and may use this information for any of them.

The Inland Revenue may get information about you from others, or we may give information to them. If they do it will only be as the law permits, to check accuracy of information, prevent or detect crime or protect public funds.

They may check information they receive about you with what is already in their records. This can include information provided by you as well as by others such as other government departments and agencies and overseas tax authorities. They will not give information about you to anyone outside the Inland Revenue unless the law permits them to do so.

This leaflet gives general guidance only and should not be treated as a complete and authoritative statement of the law.

Leaflet CA 86 from April 2003.
Prepared by Inland Revenue
National Insurance Contributions Office, Publications,
Newcastle upon Tyne.
Printed in the UK.
Available on the Internet.
Our address is: www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk