Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay for Northern Ireland (SPBPNI)

Matt Jennings Updated by Matt Jennings

From 6th April 2026, a new Statutory payment, Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay for Northern Ireland will be available. In the desktop version this will be available as a new button in the header on both Modify employee details, and in Enter payroll details.

The user will be presented with a form very similar to the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) form.

Two separate weeks of SPBPNI can be taken within 52 weeks of the date of bereavement. If one period of two weeks is to be taken you can simply populate the 1st period of SPBPNI with the start and end date.

The ‘relevant week’ is the week, ending on a Saturday, immediately before the one in which the bereavement took place.

The relevant window is a 16-week window that is available to the employee to use to determine their eligibility to Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay. The first 8 weeks of the relevant window relates to normal weekly earnings and ends with the relevant week – the week before the bereavement. The second 8 weeks within the relevant window relate to expected normal weekly earnings, the first week of which will be the week of bereavement. Qualifying Earnings Period Any continuous 8-week period within the relevant window may be used to calculate eligibility, with each week beginning on a Sunday and ending on a Saturday.

The average weekly pay is calculated based on actual earnings in the relevant window.

If any future earnings are to be used as part of the average weekly pay calculation, this will need to be a manual calculation, and entered manually.

If the SPBPNI should be offset against any other Gross earnings, tick the Offset to gross checkbox.

If SPBPNI is being processed, a valid Northern Ireland postcode must be entered in the workplace postcode field. This is submitted on the FPS and is validated against Northern Ireland postcodes.

If the SPBPNI is for a miscarriage, the miscarriage flag must be checked at the bottom of the form.

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