12 to 24 week pregnancy thread

jenjade

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Originally Posted by jenjade
WW- I work for the county coucil but because i only work 16 hours a week the maternity pay works out to be £18 less than my normal weekly wage! Not sure what happens about working family tax while i am on maternity leave and being paid by work? anyone know?

How strange, I work for the local authority and get 90% of my wages for 6 weeks, then 50% f my wages for 12 weeks, then SMP until 39 weeks. Ypu've gt a cracking maternity package for a public sector service.

Wonder W

- Thats what i get
statutory maternty pay (SMP) is £128.73 a week

the letter i received from work states i get week 1-6 @ 90% pay £133.23
week 7-26 standard rate SMP plus half standard wages £147.63
week 27-39 standard SMP £128.73

my normal weekly wage is approx £150 so i will not be very short on my normal wage and will save money on petrol, parking and lunches which will sort out the shortfall.

jenjade

today i have had a really productive baby day

went to the carboot this morning and bought:

a lovely moses basket with matress and wooden rocking stand for £10 for my house
a moses basket, matress and stand for partners house this was a bonus coz it had 2 matresses when we got home and 3 moses sheets for £10
a rocker for partners £4
a really nice rocker chair for mine £3
a baby bath for £1 with top and tail pot
a bag with 6 moses basket sheets and 6 cot sheets for £8 they are like new
a pink play mat with toys hanging ove the top amazing condition for £3
and loads of clothes!

i was so happy with my stuff

Kira000

Delain and YUmmymummy, big congrats on your little team pinkies!!:j

Jenjade.. * envious* My company has sooooo many childbearing age females in shift work, that it gives absolutely bare minimum statutory everything. So i get 6 weeks at 90%, and then straight down to SMP for the remaining 20 weeks of the ordinary M/L, then nowt if you extend into the 26 weeks of additional M/L.

I'm going to be down well over £1k per month, which when i'm servicing evil ex's debts at £900pcm is going to be tricky! By the time i'm off i'll have just about saved enough to maintain minimum payments while i'm off which i hate as the interest will start accumulating again. Grrrrrr. STRESS!!

delain

Kira can you not talk to CAB about all this? Surely you should not be paying off £900 per month of debts that aren't yours. That's more than my rent for goodness sake!

If you are liable then get yourself on a payment plan or something, at least the interest won't start building again.

Congrats on team pink Yummymummy, it's a good team to be on

Kira000

delain wrote: »

Kira can you not talk to CAB about all this? Surely you should not be paying off £900 per month of debts that aren't yours. That's more than my rent for goodness sake!

If you are liable then get yourself on a payment plan or something, at least the interest won't start building again.

Congrats on team pink Yummymummy, it's a good team to be on

Hiya hon, Thanks. Unfortunately i've been round the loop on the whole ar*ehole debts thing. He ran up a huge load of debt on a joint CC, cleared out our joint account into thousands of o/d (Leavin g me broke and needing to borrow more to pay bills) and left me with 6 months to pay of a rental contract, as well as a joint loan, then went to live overseas where he cant be touched. So, i'm responsible in his absence. I've been paying off since 2004, and still a way to go as in early days i didnt earn enough to do more than minimum on most things, and i didnt want to screw my credit record. In hindsight if i had done DMP back then i would be clear by now.
But hey! I'm getting there and my record of payment is good so no point in screwing it up now.
Now i have more disposible, its easier to overpay and i've rid myself of the highest interest ones, and some of the biggest loans i had to take out at the time. I've overpaid as much as i can for the last 8 months on the highest interest ones, to get the amounts down, whilst saving to cover my Mat. Only taking 6 Months, and DH is going to be paying the bills. I think i'll just make it!:(

4nnabella

Hey everyone, hope you've had a good weekend!

Congrats delain and yummy on the scan news, that great!

I can't decide if I'm starting to feel baby flutterings! Am 16 weeks today, so theoretically it *could* be now, but I'm sure it's really something else... It just happens occasionally, like a little flutter in the bottom of my tummy. Pretty much what it says in the books that it feels like Hopefully over the next few weeks I'll know for sure

Well done jenjade on the car boot haul, sounds like you got a load of great stuff! I'm going to start hitting the boot sales after my next payday

Gillyx

Oooh 4annabella that's exciting, it'l be 2 weeks tomorrow for me so I hope I feel them as early too. My friend could feel her baby from really early but only when she had Glee on really loud!! Not sure what that means haha.

Wonder_Womble

Well done on your car boot booty Jenjade. Sounds like yu got a canny little haul :j

AmandaD28

Congrats to delain and yummymummy on team pink news ! Were now counting down to our private scan 9 days to go so excited !

I think its about time I went to boot sales too jenjade sounds like you got a good haul there

Anyhow am off to work today so off to get dressed am sorting my maternity leave out today so am excited about that too

Take care everyone xx

delain

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