Maternity Benefits Guide - Hampshire County Council

Arrangements for repaying OMP
Your HR caseworker will calculate the amount that you
must repay and, liaising with your line manager, make
arrangements to recover the money.
Please refer to Section 15 – Checking your payments are
correct -for more information.
11.5 Postponing payment of OMP
To potentially avoid the necessity to repay OMP, it is
possible for you to request your HR caseworker to
suspend payment to you of those payments (i.e. the 12
weeks at half pay) that you would be liable to repay if you
are unable to return to work after the birth of your baby.
If, having suspended payment of OMP, you do return to
work after the birth of your baby and within the
maximum period allowed for maternity leave, the
suspended payments will be paid to you (with the usual
deductions) with your first salary after returning to work.
In order to retain this payment you will be required to
return to work for the appropriate period, specified in the
previous section.
If you wish to suspend payment of 12 weeks’ half pay of
OMP you should indicate this on Form M1.
11.6 Combining OMP and SMP
If you are entitled to a combination of the two payments,
your entitlements will be calculated and paid by your HR
caseworker in accordance with the following tables.
EHCC Staff
Weeks Entitlements Combination of SMP and OMP that will
be received
1 – 6 SMP - 90% Pay for 6 weeks
OMP - 9/10ths pay for 6
weeks.
Payments made under the OMP scheme
will be reduced so that the total of SMP
and OMP is not more than 9/10ths pay
7 – 18 12 weeks half pay. Full entitlement to SMP plus full
entitlement to OMP are payable,
provided that the total of these is not
more than normal full pay. Where the
total is more than full pay, OMP will be
reduced so that full pay is not exceeded.
19 - 39 Remaining 21 weeks will be
paid at SMP.
SMP only will be paid.
40 – 52 12 weeks No pay
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