You can stop paying SSP when your employee's incapacity for work ends - for example, when they return to work, or stop sending doctor's certificates. In addition, you do not have to pay SSP for any day after:
- your employee's contract ends;
- your employee has been due 28 weeks' SSP in a 'period of incapacity for work' (PIW);
- your employee's linked PIW with you has run for three years;
- a female employee's disqualifying period related to pregnancy begins;
- your employee is taken into custody;
- your employee goes outside the UK, and your liability to pay Class 1 NICs ceases; or
- your employee dies.
