SPM165600 - Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) - general information: employee entitled to SSP

An employee who is entitled to be paid SSP in any week during the parental bereavement leave (PBL) period cannot get SPBP for that week but they can be paid SPBP for a week in which there are only waiting days for SSP, before payment of SPBP is due to start.

If they want to take statutory parental bereavement leave and SPBP after their sickness ends, they will need to tell their employer the new start date for leave and pay and their PBL period must end within the regulatory time limit.

If they tell their employer they are incapable of work during their PBL and they are entitled to SSP, they will get SSP instead of SPBP.