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Maternity Allowance & Self Employment
xxSaffronxx
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Im currently employed on a temp basis so I will therefore be claiming Maternity Allowance when my baby arrives.
I assumed that you were not allowed to earn any money while on maternity leave and claiming SMP or MA other than your 10 "keeping in touch days" with your employer
However a few of my friends are on Mat Leave and are self employed and they say that it is perfectly ok and they dont lose their maternity benefit. And that you would only lose it if you were "employed" and not when "self employed"
I dont see how earning Self Employed is any different to Employed
Surely this cannot be right can it?
I assumed that you were not allowed to earn any money while on maternity leave and claiming SMP or MA other than your 10 "keeping in touch days" with your employer
However a few of my friends are on Mat Leave and are self employed and they say that it is perfectly ok and they dont lose their maternity benefit. And that you would only lose it if you were "employed" and not when "self employed"
I dont see how earning Self Employed is any different to Employed
Surely this cannot be right can it?
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can anyone help please?0
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It depends on what your friends are claiming. If you are claiming SMP you are allowed to do as much self employed work as you want without it affecting your benefit.
If you are claiming Maternity Allowance, you can't do any work at all, apart from your ten KIT days.Here I go again on my own....0 -
hi - do you mean they are both employed and do s/e as well? i know that is ok to do.i thought that s/e could only claim MA and not smp anyway, so surely that automatically mean that they shouldnt be working.0
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It depends on what your friends are claiming. If you are claiming SMP you are allowed to do as much self employed work as you want without it affecting your benefit.
If you are claiming Maternity Allowance, you can't do any work at all, apart from your ten KIT days.
When you are claiming Maternity Allowance this usually means you are temp or self employed - therefore there would be no Keeping In Touch days as a temp employer does not have to keep your job open!0 -
xxSaffronxx wrote: »When you are claiming Maternity Allowance this usually means you are temp or self employed - therefore there would be no Keeping In Touch days as a temp employer does not have to keep your job open!
Not true. You can indeed claim MA if you are employed but not eligible for SMP. In which case, you can work the ten 'keep in touch days' with your employer and it won't affect your allowance.What matters most is how well you walk through the fire0
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