Members are entitled to take ‘Keeping in Touch’ days during ordinary or additional maternity leave without losing Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP). These days can be taken regardless of whether the member works full or part-time.

Under the KIT day scheme, ‘work’ includes work, training, or other activities undertaken for the purpose of ‘keeping in touch’ with the workplace.

If a member is in receipt of SMP or salary, they are still in pensionable service so the KIT day will not need to be recorded separately - you should be providing their service and usual salary details anyway and deducting contributions using the rate of the contribution tier applicable for their usual annual rate of pensionable earnings.

If a member is not in receipt of SMP or salary, but is paid for the KIT in accordance with their salary rate for the employment, record this as pensionable on the service return and deduct contributions based on the annualised rate of pensionable earnings in the period.

If a member is not in receipt of SMP or salary, but is paid a nominal sum for the KIT day, i.e. not in accordance with the salary rate for the employment, do not record this day as pensionable.