## Amendment of the Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) Regulations 2000 

4.  In regulation 6 of the Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) Regulations 2000( a ) (determination of average weekly amount of specified payments), after paragraph (3) insert— 

“(4) Paragraph (5) applies in respect of a week where– 

(a) a woman is a furloughed employee; 

(b) the woman’s employer has claimed and is in receipt of financial support in respect of the woman’s earnings under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme; and 

(c) the woman’s earnings are lower than they would otherwise have been as a result of that woman being a furloughed employee. 

(5) Where any of the weeks in the period of 13 weeks referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or 

(b) is a week to which this paragraph applies, the average weekly amount of the specified payments are to be determined as if for that week she were paid the amount she would have derived from her employment had she not been a furloughed employee. 

(6) For the purposes of paragraphs (4) and (5)— 

“Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme” (“the Scheme”) means any scheme to provide for payments to be made to employers on a claim made in respect of them incurring costs of employment in respect of furloughed employees arising from the health, social and economic emergency in the United Kingdom resulting from coronavirus and coronavirus disease and contained in such Directions as may be issued from time to time pursuant to section 76 of the Coronavirus Act 2020; 

“coronavirus” and “coronavirus disease” have the meanings given in section 1 of that Act. 

“furloughed employee” has the meaning given for the purposes of the Scheme.”. 

## Amendment of the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002 

5.  In regulation 40 of the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002( b ) (normal weekly earnings), after paragraph (7) insert— 

“(8) Paragraph (9) applies where for all or part of the relevant period— 

(a) a person is a furloughed employee; 

(b) the person’s employer has claimed and is in receipt of financial support in respect of the person’s earnings under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme; and 

(c) the person’s earnings are lower than they would otherwise have been as a result of that person being a furloughed employee. 

(9) Where this paragraph applies, the person’s normal weekly earnings are to be calculated as if, during the parts of the relevant period when the person was a furloughed employee, the person was paid the amount which they would have derived from their employment had they not been a furloughed employee. 

(10) For the purposes of paragraphs (8) and (9)— 

“Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme” (“the Scheme”) means any scheme to provide for payments to be made to employers on a claim made in respect of them incurring costs of employment in respect of furloughed employees arising from the health, social and economic emergency in the United Kingdom resulting from coronavirus and coronavirus disease and contained in such Directions as may be issued from time to time pursuant to section 76 of the Coronavirus Act 2020; 

