HMRC announced today that the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) rebate scheme will close on 17 March 2022, and employers will have until the end of 24 March 2022 to make all reclaims.
After 24 March 2022, HMRC has confirmed that the information technology (IT) support will cease and no further claims can be made, regardless of whether they are valid or not.
So, midway through the final pay periods of the 2021/22 tax year, employers MUST be in a position to have accumulated all of their reclaim values AND have made the reclaim. To re-iterate:
Employers should be aware of this tight deadline. Not only does this fall in the busiest time of the year but there is also the fact that SSP can only be reclaimed once it has been paid to the employee. HMRC’s own guidance said that the reclaims portal will ask for the pay period end date, “because you can only claim for SSP paid in arrears”.
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