Guidance

Statutory Adoption Pay: table of dates for employee entitlement

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

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 28 March 2014
• Last updated: 6 April 2026
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  1. 6 April 2026

     Statutory Adoption Pay table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2026 to 2027 tax year have been added. Table for 2024 has been removed.

  2. 27 February 2025

     Statutory Adoption Pay table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2025 to 2026 tax year have been added. Tables for 2023 have been removed.

  3. 6 April 2024

     Statutory Adoption Pay 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.

  4. 22 March 2023

     Statutory Adoption Pay 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.

  5. 17 February 2022

     Statutory Adoption Pay 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.

  6. 6 April 2021

     Statutory Adoption Pay table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2021 to 2022 tax year have been added to the page.

  7. 17 June 2020

     Statutory Adoption Pay table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2020 to 2021 tax year have been added to the page.

  8. 14 January 2019

     Statutory Adoption Pay table of dates for employee entitlement for the 2019 to 2020 tax year have been added to the page.

  9. 8 March 2018

     Rates, allowances and duties have been updated for the tax year 2018 to 2019.

  10. 16 February 2017

      Rates, allowances and duties have been added for the tax year 2017 to 2018.

  11. 6 April 2016

      Rates, allowances and duties have been updated for the tax year 2016 to 2017.

  12. 26 February 2015

      The 2015 to 2016 Statutory Adoption Pay Table for employers to check if an employee started with you in time to qualify for adoption pay is now available.

  13. 28 March 2014

      First published.

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Statutory Adoption Pay tables 2026

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Statutory Adoption Pay tables 2025

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

You can also use our maternity and paternity pay calculator.