Figures › Guarantee pay and insolvency
Statutory guarantee pay: maximum per day
The most an employer must pay for one workless day of statutory guarantee pay during lay-off or short-time working.
£41.00per day
Corroborated Statutory Instrument
Great Britain
in force since 2026-04-06
Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21·guidance verified 2026-09-21
Current sources
Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/310/schedule/made (ERA 1996 s.31(1))
Source B · Official guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/lay-offs-short-timeworking/pay
History
| Value | From | To | Status | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £41.00 | 2026-04-06 | — | Corroborated |
|
| £39.00 | 2025-04-06 | 2026-04-05 | Primary source only |
|
| £38.00 | 2024-04-06 | 2025-04-05 | Primary source only |
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| £35.00 | 2023-04-06 | 2024-04-05 | Primary source only |
|
| £31.00 | 2022-04-06 | 2023-04-05 | Primary source only |
|
| £30.00 | 2021-04-06 | 2022-04-05 | Primary source only |
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| £30.00 | 2020-04-06 | 2021-04-05 | Primary source only |
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| £29.00 | 2019-04-06 | 2020-04-05 | Primary source only |
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| £28.00 | 2018-04-06 | 2019-04-05 | Primary source only |
|
| £27.00 | 2017-04-06 | 2018-04-05 | Primary source only |
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| £26.00 | 2016-04-06 | 2017-04-05 | Primary source only |
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Receipt
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- Figure ID
employment.guarantee_pay.daily_rate- Name in the API
- Maximum guarantee payment per day (workless day)
- Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status)
- si·GBP/day·GB·corroborated
- Record hash (canonical JSON, SHA-256)
sha256:695b7c0348c0fe939a3aa511b418172d3d15b695338f379014da79f4fb9177d3- Source snapshots (SHA-256)
- Legislation:
sha256:e38d02439befd69a9eae7bee9249fb1e7eaeda026295edb37fadf4d42abfd510 - Official guidance:
sha256:52aa7478eeb2545255c30555de895d8b9014f6078eac81f7894ef349b6c0ecf2 - Listed in the signed manifest
- release 3.0.0 manifest
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record_hashes["employment.guarantee_pay.daily_rate"] - Machine-readable record
- /v1/figures/employment.guarantee_pay.daily_rate · current only: /v1/figures/employment.guarantee_pay.daily_rate/current