No increase to Statutory Maternity, Statutory Sick Pay and other statutory payments for 2016-2017

The Department for Work and Pensions has published proposed Statutory Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Pay, Maternity Allowance and Statutory Sick Pay  for the year beginning 6 April 2016. Because of a 0.1% fall in the Consumer Price Index, there will be no increase to those payments for the 2016-17 tax year and so the figures will remain the same as the current tax year.