Can I pay the employee their normal payments when they are off sick, rather than processing SSP?
If you pay an employee their normal payments, instead of processing SSP, the employee can receive their normal pay. However, there are two problems with not using the dedicated SSP option in Able. 1. The reports will not show the SSP payments as SSP. 2. Able will not be able to calculate the amount of SSP that you could recover. You should therefore process SSP as SSP in the SSP section. Any additional payments should be processed as normal. If you would like to make up the employee’s pay to the normal value select Reduce Basic Pay by SSP amount.
Related Questions
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