Statutory Pay
The current Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Adoption Pay (SPP) and Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) rate is available on the Department for Work and Pensions web pages, together with information on Maternity Allowance.
Abbreviations
AML - Additional Maternity Leave (follows OML and can be for up to next 26 weeks of maternity leave)
APL - Additional Paternity Leave (in addition to two weeks OPL, fathers/partners/civil partners given flexibility to take up to 26 weeks leave to care for child)
ASPP - Additional Statutory Paternity Pay
EWC - Expected week of Childbirth
KIT - Keeping in Touch (Day)
LEL - Lower Earnings Limit
MA - Maternity Allowance
MATB1 - Form issued by midwife to confirm EWC after 20th week of pregnancy
NIC - National Insurance Contributions
OML - Ordinary Maternity Leave (the first 26 weeks of maternity leave)
OMP - Occupational Maternity Pay
OPL - Ordinary Paternity Leave (supports fathers/partners/civil partners to be present at the birth of the child)
QW - Qualifying Week
RTW - Return to Work
SMP - Statutory Maternity Pay
SPP - Statutory Paternity Pay
Last edited Jan 02, 2018