Shared Parental Leave Pay

[Kirstylx]

Hi all just wondering if anyone who has used shared Parental leave before possibly help please? I am the birth mother and taking 6 months (26 weeks) maternity leave and giving my partner 13 weeks shared Parental leave from my allowance which were taking at the same time, were currently about 5 weeks in.
My partner got her payslip today and it's not the maternity allowance amount, no where near, it's very low and doesn't make sense.
I got paid more than I expected last month and my work do offer enhanced maternity pay but I questioned are my work paying me my partner's maternity allowance as well as mine? How does that usually work should she be getting paid the allowance from her employer or does just the one partner get the whole pay for shared Parental pay?

Thanks in advance!

We used shared parental leave. You would definitely not get her pay
If her company doesn't offer enhance pay then it will be statutory only which is about £170 a week (I think)
Does that sound similar to what she received?
When you filled the forms in I believe there was a section to specify if you are giving her just your leave allowance or the leave and the statutory pay (you could just give the last 3 months of unpaid leave)

Your partners employer should be paying her statutory shared parental pay (at least) from what I understand of your plans.

You have 52 weeks of Mat leave and 39 weeks of statutory pay to share (actually 50 and 37 as the first 2 weeks after birth has to be taken as Mat leave/pay).

You are taking 26 weeks of leave and pay. Leaving 13 weeks of pay and 26 weeks of leave left.

If your partner has taken the 13 weeks of paid leave, then she should received Statutory Shared Parental pay as a minimum, more if her employer offers an occupational scheme.

If you will be off for 39 weeks in total, then you would use all the pay weeks and your partner will receive no pay for the 13 weeks she has taken.

Shared Parental leave can be complicated. Definitely get your partner er to contact her employer to find out what has happened!

Edited to add: you would definitely not be getting her pay. Your employer pays you, her employer pays her.

Also you may have got extra as the first 6 weeks of statutory pay is 90% of your wage so depending on how many weeks in the month this could potentially be more than a normal month (yearly pay divided by 12)

Last message - there's a good chance her company have just paid her wrong - no one understands shared parental leave

Has she been taxed on it incorrectly or is the gross amount not right?

Her employer won't pay yours at all, they are dealt with completely separately. I'd contact her employers to find out what they think they've paid her, and ask why it's not statutory.

Thanks all I thought it wouldn't be right hers getting paid with mine! They've messed up I think , her payslip is showing as sick pay which is wrong it should be statutory maternity pay as I gave her 13 weeks Shared parental pay

Just to point out (and being super pedantic!) it will show on her payslip as Shared Parental pay, not Maternity pay as she is on Shared Parental leave, not Maternity leave.

I'm not trying to be an arse, just to let you know what it should look like. Realistically it makes no difference as SMP and SShPP are the same amount.

Either way it definitely isn't sick pay!

Yep, they've definitely got it wrong on her payslip! She queried it and theyre going to sort it out :) thanks!

The other reason may be because it’s paid weekly so you only get completed weeks not the odd days.

The odd days are paid the next month.