b'Statutory EntitlementsS ick Pay & Lea veStatutory Sick Pay is the minimum amount payable to an employee when they are not available to work due to sickness. Any payment over SSP is completely at an employers discretion assuming that you have no prior agreement in place.For an employee to be eligible for StatutoryOnce the SSP payments have started they can Sick Pay (SSP) they must be earning over thecontinue for up to 28 weeks. This payment is lower earnings limit (please call NannyPayeirrelevant of how many days your nanny works, for the current rates). As an employer you doso whether she works one, two or fi ve days a not need to see a doctors certifi cate to payweek she would get the same weekly gross SSP to an employee however, you can ask topayment. Beyond this point your nanny would see a certifi cate should you believe that thego on to long term sick and will need to make nanny has not truly been ill. a benefi ts claim. If your nanny is going to go onto long term sick, at 26 weeks of SSP we will SSP starts to be paid once the employeeprovide you with a form SSP1 which the nanny has reached their 4th consecutive day ofwill need to take to the Job Centre Plus to claim illness related absence from work, the fi rstincapacity benefi t. This form is provided at 26 three days being completely unpaid. Thisweeks as it will take the job centre a couple of would, for example, perhaps be the Thursdayweeks to get the payment to your nanny set up should your nanny call in sick on the Monday,and so this ensures that she is not left without however, keep in mind that it could be farpayment for any time.further away than that should your nanny only work part time. e.g. if your nanny onlySadly from April 2014 HMRC removed the works on Monday of each week it would notscheme that allowed small employers to claim be until four weeks after she called in sickback SSP costs. This means that all SSP paid to that she would start to receive a payment. an employee is at the cost of the employer.8'