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title	Click here to see descriptions of the fields relating to SSPSPP

Expected Week of Childbirth (EWC)

This is the week the child is due to be born. This date comes through from the first pop up window as described in Adding/Editing/Deleting a Child Related Absence. Once the date has been entered, it cannot be changed. If an incorrect date has been entered, the SPP record will need to be deleted and re-entered. This date is essential for all the calculations for determining the entitlement and payment of SPP.

Baby Born Date

To record when the baby was born. SPP can only be paid once the baby is born/adopted.

Date Notice to Start SPP Received

This is to record the date of when written notice was given to the employer to commence SPP. The entered date should be 28 days or more prior to baby born date. If the date is less than 28 days, the payee has not given enough notice to start paternity pay. This means the payee does not qualify for SPP. A status of Not Qualified will be recorded and the payments will not be generated unless the status is manually updated to Qualifies.

PPP Start Date

The date the payee wishes to start the paternity pay period. The date must be on or after the baby born date. This date can be amended as long as no payments have yet been paid in a pay batch. If amending the date, the SPP episode payments must be re-generated. Click Calculate and then click Save.

SPP Weeks

This is the number of SPP weeks that will be generated for payment. The number of weeks is defaulted from the statutory parameters for the given tax year. The number of weeks entered cannot exceed the statutory maximum. The number of weeks can be updated should the carer wish to return to work early. If amending the weeks, the SPP episode payments must be re-generated. Click Calculate and then click Save.

PPP End Date

A calculated date based on the PPP start date and the SPP Weeks entered.

Payment Based On

The child related absence no longer has to start on a Sunday. The payment can be based on the payee's normal pay date. The default option is Weekly to base the payments starting on a Sunday. Once a payment has been generated and paid in a pay batch, this selection cannot be changed.

Average Weekly Earnings (AWE)

This is a system generated field that determines the payee's average weekly earnings based on the statutory rules. This figure is generated when the Calculate button is pressed.

Override

If the system does not have enough pay periods to determine the average weekly earnings or that you wish to override the generated value, check this checkbox to indicate you wish to override the system generated value.

Override Amount

If the Override checkbox is checked, this field will be visible. This is to enter the 100% value that you wish the system to base the statutory payment on.

Qualifying Week (QW)

This is a generated date and is the 15th week before the expected week of birth and is used in the calculation of the AWE.

Earliest Employment Start Date

This is a generated date and is the date the payee must have started employment to qualify for the child related absence and is based from 26 weeks prior to the QW.

Actual Start Date

This is a generated date and is the payees employment start date.

Earliest Termination Date

This is a generated date and is the latest employment end date that the person could still qualify for the child related absence and is based from the date of birth.

Status

Once the Calculate button has been pressed, the system will determine the if the payee qualifies for the child related payment based on the data entered/generated. The status is either Qualifies or Does not Qualify.

Reasons for Not Qualifying

The reasons for not qualifying are automatically selected based on the rules where a status of Does Not Qualify is determined. Multiple reasons can be generated depending on the circumstances. These can be amended manually.

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The following describes the Dates tab which is only available to ShPP. ShPP is not necessarily paid in consecutive weeks. ShPP can be paid in blocks of 1 week or more within a 52 week window of when the child was born/adopted.

Field descriptions of the Dates tab

No of Weeks

This is the number of weeks to be paid in block of weeks. There must be at least 1 row or more. The total number of weeks added in all the rows must add up to the ShPP in the Episode tab.

The number of weeks can be decreased in a block up to the number of weeks already paid.

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Whenever amending the weeks, the episode must be re-calculated to update the Payments tab.

Start Date

This is the start date of each block of ShPP weeks to be taken.

The dates must be sequential. For example, the payee wishes to take a 2 week block, then come back to work for 3 weeks and then have another 2 week block. The second block of weeks start date cannot be before the first block of weeks.

End Date

This is a calculated date based on the start date of the block of weeks and the number of weeks in the block.

The following describes the fields in the Payments tab. The column header labels will change depending on the child related payment type.

Field descriptions of the Payments tab
Pay Date	This is the pay date on which the payments will be made. If the pay group has a frequency of monthly or 2 weekly there could be multiple weeks with the same pay date.
Week	This is the week number of the child related payment. The same week number could be shown if the higher and standard rate is being paid within the same week where the Payment Based On is by normal pay date.
Week Start Date	This is the child related week start date.
Week End Date	This is the child related week end date.
Status	If the child related week has been processed in a pay batch, this will display as Paid else it will be Pending.
Type	Displays if the week is paid at the higher or standard rate.
Amount	The amount paid for that week.

Any values that are displayed in the Payments tab will automatically be included in the relevant pay period pay batch that the payee appears in. If the payments are prior to the current pay period and have yet to be paid, it will be necessary to process an adjustment batch for the relevant period. The alternative is that the Pay Period Start Date should be amended to the current pay period.

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