C23C14C1C26C11C21C16C2C9C18C12C7C19F1PART 12ZDSTATUTORY PARENTAL BEREAVEMENT PAY

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C25C23C22C14C1C4C15C24C11C21C8C16C10C6C2C9C18C13C5C12C20C7C3C19C17167ZZ9C11C21C16C2C9C18C12C7C19Entitlement

1

A person who satisfies the conditions in subsection (2) is entitled in accordance with the following provisions of this Part to payments to be known as “statutory parental bereavement pay”.

2

The conditions are—

a

that the person is a bereaved parent,

b

that the person is in employed earner’s employment with an employer on the day on which the child dies, and

c

that the weekly earnings threshold is met (see subsection (5)).

3

For the purposes of subsection (2) an employee is a “bereaved parent” if the employee satisfies prescribed conditions as to relationship with a child who has died.

4

The conditions prescribed under subsection (3) may be framed, in whole or in part, by reference to the employee’s care of the child before the child’s death.

5

The weekly earnings threshold is met if the person’s normal weekly earnings for any continuous period of 8 weeks falling within the relevant window is not less than the lower earnings limit in force under section 5(1)(a) at the end of the relevant week.

6

In subsection (5), the “relevant window” is the period consisting of—

a

the 8 weeks ending with the relevant week, and

b

the 8 weeks immediately following that week.

7

The reference in subsection (5) to a person’s normal weekly earnings is, in relation to any period after the date on which the child dies, a reference to the person’s expected normal weekly earnings for that period.

8

Section 167ZZ17(9) provides for the calculation of a person’s expected normal weekly earnings.

9

In this section “relevant week” means the week immediately before the one in which the child dies.

10

Where a person satisfies the conditions in subsection (2) as a result of the death of more than one child, the person is entitled to statutory parental bereavement pay in respect of each child.