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Hi, Just a quick and hopefully easy question.

I am 6 weeks pregnant and wondering how my tax credits will be affected when the baby arrives. We have a child who will be in fulltime education (January) and when I go on maternity leave we obviously won't be paying for the extra childcare (My partner and I work fulltime).

Will we get anything whilst I am off work, we only get a small payment now as we are classed as having a high income.

The only reason I am worrying about this now is so that we can try and work out how much we need to save in the next 8 months so that we can try and maintain our normal income whilst I only receive smp

Any advice, experience would be really appreciated.;)

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