Payroll Help
How statutory payments are calculated depends on whether these options have been selected in Payroll - Utilities - Set Options command. Before statutory payments are calculated, payment profiles must be created for the type of statutory payment. See the Payroll - Maintenance - Payment Profile Help topic for more information.
Messages are displayed during the calculation if statutory payments are paid.
Automatic calculations make the task of calculating statutory payments easier than doing manual calculations. These options must be selected for the application to calculate statutory payments.
Statutory Sick Pay - the Full SSP Processing option must be selected before SSP will be calculated automatically. The calculation automatically determines ‘this period’ and ‘to-date this period’ values for SSP payments using details entered for each employee in the Payroll - Processing - Stat Payments - SSP Absence command.
Statutory Maternity Pay - the Full SMP Processing option must be selected before SMP will be calculated automatically. The calculation automatically determines ‘this period’ and ‘to-date this period’ values for SMP payments using details entered for each employee in the Payroll - Processing - Stat Payments - SMP Details command.
Statutory Paternity Pay for births - the Full SPP (Birth) Processing option must be selected before SPP (Birth) will be calculated automatically. The calculation automatically determines ‘this period’ and ‘to-date this period’ values for SPP Birth payments using details entered for each employee in the Payroll - Processing - Stat Payments - SPP (Birth) Details command.
Statutory Paternity Pay for adoption - the Full SPP (Adopt) Processing option must be selected before SPP (Adopt) will be calculated automatically. The calculation automatically determines ‘this period’ and ‘to-date this period’ values for SPP Adopt payments using details entered for each employee in the Payroll - Processing - Stat Payments - SPP (Adopt) Details command.
Statutory Adoption Pay - the Full SAP Processing option must be selected before SAP will be calculated automatically. The calculation automatically determines ‘this period’ and ‘to-date this period’ values for SAP payments using details entered for each employee in the Payroll - Processing - Stat Payments - SAP Absence command.
Shared Parental Pay for births and adoptions. Please see the To Set Up Shared Parental Pay Help topic for instructions.
To comply with the HMRC Payroll Standards, these options must be selected so that all the statutory payments are calculated by the application.
If the Split-Week Payments of SMP/SAP option is selected, the Calculation command calculates, for the current pay date, the number of days for each side of the split, and the resulting SMP and SAP payments to include in employees’ wages or salary payments. Any balance of days remaining is retained on the employee’s record and then used in the following pay period. The command also calculates a running total of split days that have been paid in the MPP or APP. These days are included on the Payroll - Periodical Reports - SMP report and the Payroll - Periodical Reports - SAP report.
If the options described in the Automatic Statutory Payments Calculations section are not selected, the Calculation command uses values entered manually on the employee's payment and deduction record for the statutory payment type to update the employees' ‘this period’ and ‘to-date this period’ values.