Main Social Security Benefits

 

Weekly Benefit		2017-18
Basic retirement pension	– single person	£159.35
	– married couple	£243.25
Statutory Pay Rates – Average
Statutory Sick Pay		£89.35
Statutory Maternity Pay	– First 6 Weeks	90% of Weekly
	– Next 33 Weeks	£140.98*
Statutory Paternity Pay	2 weeks	£140.98*
Statutory Adoption Pay	39 Weeks	£140.98*

* Or 90% of weekly earnings if lower.

Additional Paternity Pay and Leave may be available for a child due or adoptions matched on or after 3 April 2011.