Statutory maternity pay in Payroll Accord – Ciphr

To process Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) for an employee you will need the following details:

Expected Week of Confinement ( EWC- Baby Due Date)
Maternity Leave Start and End Date

From Home or Employee Tab go to Employee Enter/Adjust

Select the employee by clicking the drop-down arrow next to the Employee code filed. Then go to Miscellaneous tab and click on SMP button in the Payment plans section.

Enter the date baby is due (Sunday of expected week of confinement) and click Calculate.

Note: You might be prompted to manually enter the Average Weekly Earnings when doing this please ensure the Override AWE box is ticked. This step is necessary if the employee does not have period records for the previous eight weeks on weekly payrolls or the previous two months on monthly payrolls. Typically, this occurs for recent hires or when you just started using CIPHR Payroll.

You can override the last normal payday or MPP start/end dates, depending on the employee. If you are overriding any dates please ensure you tick the corresponding Override box. Click Recalculate. You might be shown a pop up box, select applicable reason for the change and click OK.

Review the details and if all is correct click Update. The SMP Weekly Payments Table will appear, check if it is correct.

Click Update to Set up the plan.

Click on the Close button. The SMP payment plan is set up.

SMP payments will be made to the employee, with the applicable recovery automatically deducted from the company's Tax and NIC liability for that tax month. This will be reflected in the P32 Yearly Totals report.

Note: The above steps are for automatic SMP calculation in CIPHR Payroll. If you prefer to calculate it manually please enter SMP Adjustment using wage type 201000 on the Transactions tab as a one-off payment. Regardless of the method, SMP recording and reporting are handled automatically.

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