News added on 03.12.2018
The government has published a list of the proposed benefit and pension rates for 2019/20 and it includes the new statutory payment rates. What are they?
The government’s list has been set out in a written ministerial statement made in the House of Commons and it confirms that the:
The list doesn’t include any effective dates. However, the increases to SSP and the LEL always take effect from the start of a new tax year, i.e. 6 April 2019, and the increases to SMP, SAP, SPP and ShPP tend to take effect from the first Sunday in April, which next year is Sunday, 7 April 2019.
The proposed rates are still subject to Parliamentary approval, so changes are possible, but unlikely. The government will, in due course, draft a new Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order to give effect to the changes and this is likely to be published in early 2019.
Subject to final approval by Parliament, from 7 April 2019 the standard weekly rates of SMP, SAP, SPP and ShPP will increase to £148.68 and from 6 April 2019 the weekly rate of SSP will rise to £94.25. In addition, the weekly lower earnings limit, below which employees don’t qualify for these payments, is set to increase to £118 from 6 April 2019.
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