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As an employee you might be entitled to receive statutory sick pay(S.S.P) from your employer if your absent from work due to sickness for four or more days in a row. Your payroll services provider should look after this on your behalf but it helps to have a certain understanding on how it works. You need to earn at least £102.00 per week which is equal to the lower earnings limit(LEL), this is the amount you would need to earn before you start to pay national insurance contributions. The current rate of S.S.P is £81.60 per week and you could receive this for upto 28 weeks in a row. If your employer is not going to be paying you S.S.P they need to give you form S.S.P1 which will state why, this form is then taken direct to your local benefits agency. If you need any further advice on this or any other payroll services matter please contact Advanced Payroll Services for all your payroll services needs. Look out for our informative post on S.M.P in the next few days.