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Statutory sick pay (SSP) over year end

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Summary

How to process SSP for an employee over year end in Sage Payroll.

Resolution

When you process SSP for an employee over year end, you must process the right amount of SSP in the relevant tax year. For example, you process any statutory sick pay for 2024, in the 2024 tax year software, not in 2025.

If you've already moved into a new tax year and processed SSP for the previous tax year, you must:

  1. Go back into the timesheet for the previous year.
  2. Edit it to include the correct amount of SSP for the previous year.
  3. Pay the employee any difference in nett pay outside of the payroll. For example, a cheque.
  4. To inform Revenue of the changes, resend the Payroll Submission Request (PSR) for the previous tax year.

SSP in 2025 tax year

As the Department of Social Protection is yet to confirm the entitlement increase from five to seven days in the 2025 tax year, we won't include this in the Sage Payroll year end update.

However, if the Minister or the Department of Social Protection confirms a change, we'll provide a further software update.

 

Related Solutions

Process Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

Download and install the Sage Payroll year end update