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Statutory Paternity Pay: table of dates for employee entitlement (adoption)

Use these tables to check your employee started with you in time to qualify for paternity pay.

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HM Revenue & Customs
Published
28 March 2014
Last updated
276 FebruaryApril 20252026 — See all updates

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Use these tables, if you are calculating manually, to check the latest start dates for employment for Statutory Paternity Pay.

You can also use our maternity and paternity pay calculator.

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Published 28 March 2014

Last updated 276 FebruaryApril 20252026 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates

    3. The Statutory Paternity Pay (adoption) table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2025 to 2026 tax year have been added. Tables for 2023 have been removed.

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Update history

2026-04-06 00:15
The Statutory Paternity Pay (adoption) pay tables for 2026 have been added.

2025-02-27 12:29
The Statutory Paternity Pay (adoption) table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2025 to 2026 tax year have been added. Tables for 2023 have been removed.

2024-04-06 00:15
The Statutory Paternity Pay (adoption) table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2024 to 2025 tax year have been added to the page. Tables for 2020, 2021 and 2022 have been removed.

2023-03-22 15:21
The Statutory Paternity Pay (adoption) table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2023 to 2024 tax year have been added to the page. Tables for 2019 have been removed.

2022-02-17 16:46
The Statutory Paternity Pay (adoption) table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2022 to 2023 tax year have been added to the page. Tables for 2018 have been removed.