Statutory Pay
The current Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Adoption Pay (SPP) and Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) rate is available on the web pages, together with information on .
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