Title
Statutory Sick Pay Form SSP 1(L)

Purpose
As an employer, you will complete this form for employees who have beenpaid SSP of more than three days within eight weeks of leaving. Theform is issued at the request of the leaving employee.
Where an employee requests an SSP 1(L) form, it should be completedwithin seven days of the request. Where this is impracticable due toyour payroll arrangements, it should be completed by the first paydayin the tax month following the one in which the request was made.

Features
The computerized version of Form SSP 1(L) contains the followingstatutory information:

• Employee's name


• Employee's National Insurance number


• Employee's payroll number


• First day of sickness


• Last day of sickness for which SSP was paid


• Total number of weeks for which SSP was paid


• Employer's name and address


• Office stamp

Activities
You will normally be running the SSP 1(L) report at the employee'srequest. On the selection screen, enter the employee's personnel numberand other data, as appropriate. When you have run the report andprinted the form, you must complete the following fields manually:


• First day of sickness


• Last day of sickness that SSP was paid


• Total number of weeks SSP paid

Only whole weeks are included on the form. SSP paid for more than threedays is rounded up to a whole week, while three days or less areignored.