MSE Pregnancy Club 17

nikkit72

on phone to jobcentre plus now to find out more

ETA: if you get SMP or MA you can NOT get sure start , it is for people who claim :

• Income Support
• income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit at a rate higher than the family element ( This is what you get if you claim IS JSA DIsability allowance )
• Working Tax Credit where a disability or severe disability element is included in the award

i get WTC and CTC , but only work 17.5 hours a week , and i can NOT claim , the guy stated lots time this is for low income families i.e who claim IS / JSA , Literally people who DO NOT work

BeenieCat

EA if they refuse you for the grant before you have baby make sure you apply again when baby born and your circs have changed. Lots of people have done that and got it 2nd time round

aless02

nmluser - try eBay for Pregnacare. If you buy in bulk, it's cheaper than the shops. No it's not free, but if you're only after the folic acid buying plain folic acid tablets is wayyyy cheaper than Pregnacare/similar.

Your 1st appt with the GP or MW will give you your mat exemption cert which gives you free prescriptions & dental care 'til baby is 1 yr old. Send off the form in the post and they will send you a plastic card you show to the chemist.

Evansangel

PrincessPlaty wrote: »

it seems like you are only entitled to it if you are receiving ctc at a higher rate than the basic family element even if you are receiving wtc too its all very confusing

Your manager sounds like a !!!! :mad:

He is! He never has time for anyone, yet when i've kind of snuck up on him, he is just playing games or having email convos with people.

nikkit72 wrote: »

EA - can you not call your HR dept direct ?

but EA you dont get CTC till baby born , so you not getting it yet.

He wont give me the number for HR. Thats why i tried to call him earlier.

BeenieCat wrote: »

EA if they refuse you for the grant before you have baby make sure you apply again when baby born and your circs have changed. Lots of people have done that and got it 2nd time round

We werent going to try and apply for anything until the baby is born anyway. It will only be whilst im at college and uni that we want help, once i qualify and get a better job i can earn more

jha

kindof
its a bit complicated it depends on wether te baby is still free or engaged - you can go on all fours and let your belly hang forward if you need to move a baby off your pelvis (oblique) (or any position in fact) to ceph greatly relieving the pressure and pain caused by baby's lie if stuck on your pelvis like mine was. or creating the room for a back to back baby to turn around. my baby went from obliguue back to back to transverse then ceph - i stil do all fours but resting on a gymball so my pelvis is open and baby is being encouraged to engage initially and now i am carrying on now it is 1/5 engaged.

its far more complicated than this and i am rubbish at explaining you can look at www.spinningbabies.com for more info aless linked to a while back which i am still looking at. i also practice birthing positions which must all be good for baby positioning:p HTH


HUGE LABOUR VIBES BEENIE

I am unemployed (housewife) my husband works 40 hrs a week and earns around 13k per year after tax he gets wtc and i got hpig - nothing else. HTH

nikkit72

EA - just call this number and go through as a new claim and speak to the guys they very helpful , he did say just fill in and see what they say , they can always say no , so you dont lose out

0800 055 6688

ETA , is there not a number on the net for your companies HR dept , or go throuh too a CS dept and ask for HR number ?

i only got HIPG too , i earn £7000 a year and get CTC and WTC , and cant get nothing else

Evansangel

Thank you

Right, my manager is going to walk over to HR and then call me back. He said he would anyway.

If not im going there tomorrow to have a moan lol

Eta: No there isn't. There isn't even a customers services number! Its a call centre so they dont have anything likr that. And employee's usually aren't allowed in the HR dept unless they are with a manager.

GemmaE

jha wrote: »

Gemma - whinge away - you are truley an inspiration to me and i think you are doing briliantly dealing with all the frights and leaks you are having - if i can put it like that:o Heres hoping baby stays cooking untill you are happy for it to arrive - sending you stay put vibes:D

Oh JHA, thank you! Am now welling up (more bloomin leakage:rotfl::rotfl:!)

To be fair, I had such an easy time until the last few weeks I don't think overall I'm doing too badly. Scan today showed still got plenty of water, going back on Monday for more blood tests and monitoring. I will have had 8 appts at the MW/ hospital and a 2 day stay this month, so I'm definitaley now getting my moneys worth from the NHS!

Swishy_bell

The best thing to do in relation to the surestart grant is to just apply after the baby is born even if you dont think you will get it. They can only say no.

I didn't think I would get it with my first as my husband worked full time (I was a student but he earnt around £14000 a year and we weren't getting any other benefits) and we got it. It goes on your annual income not how many hours you work.

Evansangel

OMG! All HR have is a letter from me saying i want to start ML in October that i wrote in March! I said "No, thats from my previous pregnancy that i miscarried, i assumed they knew that.."

And my manager said he's going to call me back.

So somethings wrong, they are denying something i know that..i heard them lol.

Eta: Woohoo! They found my MatB1 form but not my letter, so have asked me to email a new letter over saying i want to start ML 20th December and state the date i am due back.
So i copied and pasted my orignal letter into an email