LRD guides and handbook April 2019

Universal Credit and other in-work benefits - a guide for union reps and workers

Chapter 4

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

[ch 4: page 36]

If you are in paid work and become sick, you may qualify for SSP from your employer. Your employer may have opted out of SSP by providing an occupational scheme that is at least as good as SSP. It may have different rules, but they cannot be worse than those for SSP.