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Information Technology Coursework Benefit Systems Sickness Benefit What benefits are there? * Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) * Incapacity Benefit How do they help? The basic thinking behind sickness and incapacity benefits is that they provide some national scheme to protect employed people. For short contract workers or those with no formal contract there would be no way of claiming for lost earnings without these schemes. They therefore provide a safety net available to every employed person and ensure that some income is gained even if you cannot work. Statutory Sick Pay is available for periods of sickness up to 28 weeks. Your employer pays it directly, normally along with your normal earnings. To claim you must be employed and have been off work due to sickness for more than 4 days in a row. You must also have been earning enough to contribute to National Insurance (over £67 a week). If a person has more than one...

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