Am I entitled to maternity pay ?

ed2712 · 4 February 2006 at 5:42PM

I am 13 weeks pregnant and i dont work, my fiance who I live with earns £13,000 a year. Am I entitled to any benefits. Thank you for reading.

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angeluk69_2 · 4 February 2006 at 5:48PM

As far as I am aware you are definetly not entitled to Maternity Pay as you do not work. 3 months before baby is due you can claim a Maternity Grant (social benefit) and obviously once baby is born you can get tax crdits and child bensfit.

HTH

CIS · 4 February 2006 at 5:50PM

You wont be able to claim the maternity grant until you have the tax credit award notice as proof of eligibility.

angeluk69_2 · 4 February 2006 at 5:54PM

try this link http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/2002/maternity/
it may explaina bout maternity grant

I wasn't on tax credits at the time and i still got maternity grant

Rikki · 4 February 2006 at 5:57PM

I wasn't working for the full year before I got pregnant 1st time and I got no Maternity benefit. I wasn't working when I got pregnant with my second and got I no Maternity benefit again. Husband working counted for nothing.

Spendless · 4 February 2006 at 8:25PM

ed2712 wrote:

I am 13 weeks pregnant and i dont work, my fiance who I live with earns £13,000 a year. Am I entitled to any benefits. Thank you for reading.

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Have you been working previously? I got maternity allowance even though I'd given up my part-time job several months earlier. I'd worked 26 weeks out of the 66 weeks before baby was born earning at least £30 a week.

mummytofour · 4 February 2006 at 8:47PM

On my ss grant form it says that if you are recieving woeking tax credits, which on a family income of 13k they should be, you can claim 11 weeks before baby is due, (week 29)

Am I entitled to maternity pay ?

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