Petition Ring-Fence Employers Deductions from Statutory Sick Pay

It is possible for employers under current statutory provisions to make deductions from your SSP leaving you with a net monthly salary of £O and that you can still, when applying for other benefits as a result, be classed as in receipt of SSP as a monetary value and thus ineligible for such benefits,

Employers are not bound to apply due diligence when calculating pay and are not statutorily obliged to notify employees or stagger any reclaiming of overpayment of salary - leading to the above scenario.

The government is called upon to statutorily limit such reclaiming of overpayment in percentage terms per pay period, set a minimum amount of SSP below which deductions cannot be made and make employers apply due diligence in administering payrolls so that overpayments are limited to a threshold as a proportion of monthly salary, above which such overpayments are written off.