Reclaim for Employees with Sick or Isolating Note

The Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme will repay employers the Statutory Sick Pay paid to current or former employees.

The Scheme covers all types of employment contracts including full-time, part-time, employees on agency contracts and employees on flexible or zero hours contracts as well as fixed term contracts until the date their contract ends.

Please note, the weekly rate was £95.85 before 6 April 2021 and is now £96.35. If you’re an employer who pays more than the weekly rate of SSP you can only claim up to the weekly rate paid.

The repayment will cover up to 2 weeks SSP starting from the first qualifying day of sickness, if an employee is unable to work because they:

  • Have coronavirus symptoms
  • Are self-isolating because someone they live with has symptoms
  • Are self-isolating because they’ve been notified by the NHS or public health bodies that they’ve come into contact with someone with coronavirus
  • Have been advised by letter to shield because they’re clinically extremely vulnerable and at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus.
  • Have been notified by the NHS to self-isolate before surgery for up to 14 days

Employers can make more than one claim per employee, but cannot claim for more than 2 weeks in total. You can claim if you meet the following criteria.

  • You have already paid your employee’s sick pay (use the SPP calculator to work out how much to pay)
  • You’re claiming for an employee who’s eligible for sick pay due to coronavirus
  • You have a PAYE payroll scheme that was created and started on or before 28 February 2020
  • You had fewer than 250 employees on 28 February 2020 across all your PAYE payroll schemes

Employees do not have to give you a doctor’s fit note for you to make a claim. But you can ask them to give you either:

  • An isolation note from NHS-111 if they are self-isolating and cannot work because of coronavirus
  • A ‘shielding note’ or a letter from their doctor or health authority advising them to shield because they’re at high risk of severe illness from coronavirus

You can claim back from both the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme for the same employee but not for the same period of time.

The online service you’ll use to claim back Statutory Sick Pay is now available.

Use the SSP calculator to work out the actual amount you can claim.

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