{"id":364,"date":"2023-04-03T14:58:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/?p=364"},"modified":"2023-04-03T14:58:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:58:44","slug":"social-security-benefits-increases-to-statutory-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/2023\/04\/03\/social-security-benefits-increases-to-statutory-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Benefits: Increases to Statutory Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/nichart.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nic Hart<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 14 March 2023, the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023 made increases to the rate of payment for statutory sick pay (SSP) as well as statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and parental bereavement pay.<\/p>\n<p>The new rates are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>SSP: \u00a399.35 to \u00a3109.40.<\/li>\n<li>Statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and parental bereavement: \u00a3156.66 to \u00a3172.48.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The increased payment rate for SSP will come into force on 2 April 2023, and the new rates for statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and parental bereavement will apply on 6 April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The full Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023 can be viewed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2023\/316\/contents\/made\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation.uk.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nic Hart On 14 March 2023, the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023 made increases to the rate of payment for statutory sick pay (SSP) as well as statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and parental bereavement pay. The new rates are as follows: SSP: \u00a399.35 to \u00a3109.40. Statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/2023\/04\/03\/social-security-benefits-increases-to-statutory-payments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Security Benefits: Increases to Statutory Payments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[299,14,298],"ppma_author":[143],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-benefits","tag-nic-hart","tag-social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-2023"],"authors":[{"term_id":143,"user_id":442,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorrislondon","display_name":"Duane Morris London","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cbf8a6345c4704b4ae1a3609d16b3aabfc4b8d73ee39ca500fb1b83d47deebbe?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}