Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) and Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) can often require adjustments or overrides in payroll systems like BrightPay. If SSP is not displaying on the payslip, confirm that all sick leave dates are appropriately logged, including non-working days. For SMP, ensure settings correctly reflect all relevant periods and that any manual adjustments, such as overriding amounts for wealth adjustments or after a pay rise, are handled via the payslip configuration options. This may involve checking the employee profile details for correct entries or ensuring the user role entitles them to make necessary overrides.

If an adjustment is required, this can be carried out via the adjustment section on the payslip.

Click the spanner icon within the statutory pay section. You can then select to override amount.

Enter in the correct amount required for this pay period.

If the adjustment is a correction, finalise the payslip and send an Additional FPS > correction to earlier submission to HMRC for each period to update the records with HMRC.

Note: BrightPay will not automatically adjust the number of hours or periodic pay when SSP is applied to the payslip. Any adjustment will have to be done manually by reducing the number of hours or working out the employee's daily rate and then adjusting the periodic pay by the number of days the employee was on sick leave.

BrightPay only ever pays SSP in full days — there is no part-day payment, and a carried-forward SSP amount from a previous period cannot be overridden or edited in the same way as SSP entered via the calendar in the current period.

If the SSP carry-forward amount doesn't match what you're expecting, this is most likely down to the Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) figure BrightPay has calculated. To check this:

1. Go to the employee's calendar
2. Click on the relevant sick period
3. Click the 'Edit' icon at the bottom right of the screen
4. This will show you the AWE BrightPay has calculated for that period

If you don't agree with the AWE shown, or need to amend it, you can manually enter the correct AWE from this same screen.