Your employees may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), you can view the current SSP details for employees here:
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): employer guide
You can set up Clear Books to calculate an employee’s SSP. You must first record the sick period for which SSP will be due and then we will automatically calculate SSP when you run Payroll for the period.
Step 1.
You must head to Employees > Statutory Payments and click on the 'Add statutory leave' button.
Step 2.
Select the relevant employee and SSP. You must fill in the employee details and any fields with an asterisk, then hit Save.
SSP cannot be recovered by the employer via HMRC.
Once saved, you will be able to access previous SSP records under Employees > Statutory Payments.
It is not possible for users to add or edit sick leave entries if the date of the new/modified entry is prior to the most recently saved sick leave entry. For instance, a user cannot add or edit a sick leave date in July if an October sick leave has already been saved.
Step 3.
You can then head to Payroll > Overview > Select the relevant frequency > Select the month you wish to process where SSP falls. When processing the pay for the employee the SSP will be automatically added as shown.
SSP records must be added prior to the processing of payslips in order for the correct SSP to be calculated.
Once the pay is processed the payslip will show the SSP as shown in the example below:
