SPM10310 - Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - Forms and Guidance: SC2 - Self certification

For SSP purposes, an employer is not entitled to ask for a medical certificate, signed by a doctor, for the first seven days of absence from work due to incapacity. The employee is only required to notify the employer of the incapacity and provide self-certification of their incapacity, in writing.

Form SC2 is available for this use, or the employer may provide employees with their own form or accept a letter giving the information they require in order to consider SSP entitlement.

Copies are available from

• Employer Orderline on 0845 7646 646
• the HMRC website