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Employees with average weekly earnings below the Lower Earnings Limit who do not qualify for SMP may be entitled to MA or other benefits.
Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid to employees who have at least 26 weeks’ service immediately before the 15th week before the expected week of childbirth and whose pay is above the Lower Earnings Limit for paying National Insurance Contributions (this changes each year).
Adopters who have average weekly earnings below the Lower Earnings Limit for National Insurance Contributions will not qualify for SAP.
However, employees must earn above the Lower Earnings Limit (£520 per month) on average between the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the end of January 2021.
For employers sponsoring contracted-out occupational DC schemes, there will be an increase in National Insurance contributions of 1.4 percentage points on employee earnings between the Lower Earnings Limit and the Upper Accrual Point.