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SPM182600 | Paying and Recovering - SSP/SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP/SNCP: offsetting against other payments

From HM Revenue & Customs · Statutory Payments Manual

An employer can treat an employee’s wages or any occupational maternity, adoption, paternity or sick payments as payments towards SSP/SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP/SNCP, or the other way round if:

  • they continue to pay wages for a week in which SSP/SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP/SNCP is due, even though the employee did not do any work for them, or

  • they make a payment from their own occupational pay scheme for the same week as SSP/SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP/SNCP.

If these payments are less than the SSP/SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP/SNCP due the employer must make up the difference.

Jointly funded or employee funded scheme

Payments funded by employees cannot be offset against an employer’s liability to pay SSP/SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP/SNCP.

If payment is paid from a jointly funded scheme, and it counts as earnings for NICs purposes, that part of the payment funded by the employer can be offset against the employer’s SSP/SMP/SAP/SPP/ShPP/SPBP/SNCP liability.