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Statutory pay and entitlements API

Short answer

Statutory Sick Pay from April 2026’s rules, maternity, adoption, paternity, shared parental, parental bereavement and neonatal care pay, statutory redundancy pay, notice, holiday entitlement (with 12.07% accrual for irregular hours) and minimum wage checks.

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  • Average weekly earnings stay exact until a payment rounds up to the penny, as the regulations say.
  • Weeks of family pay come back as runs at each weekly rate, ready for payroll.

Endpoints

  • POST /v1/statutory/sick-payOne SSP payment
  • POST /v1/statutory/maternity-paySMP week by week (and adoption, paternity, shared parental, bereavement, neonatal care)
  • POST /v1/redundancy-payStatutory redundancy pay
  • POST /v1/notice-payStatutory notice and its pay
  • POST /v1/holiday-entitlementAnnual leave, or irregular hours accrual
  • POST /v1/minimum-wage-checkPay against the minimum wage

Try a request

Money is pounds and pence. Every response carries the tax year, the engine and HMRC test data that produced it, the assumptions and the gov.uk sources.

curl https://api.checktakehomepay.co.uk/v1/statutory/maternity-pay \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHECKTAKEHOMEPAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "average_weekly_earnings": {
    "earnings": 5200,
    "months": 2
  }
}'

Questions

Does SSP still have waiting days?

Not from 6 April 2026: it is paid from the first day off sick, at any earnings, at the lower of £123.25 a week and 80% of average weekly earnings.

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