We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.
This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
The Forum now has a brand new text editor, adding a bunch of handy features to use when creating posts. Read more in our how-to guide
Benefits entitlement with a newborn baby.
LucyLouBear14
Posts: 1 Newbie
apologise in advance, this will be a long post.
I am in a tricky situation and need some advice/help regarding benefits.
I had my beautiful baby girl on the 11th April and am registering her next Thursday. I will then send off for child benefit.
I am currently only claiming statutory maternity pay as got fired from my ex employer (at 11 weeks pregnant) for being pregnant (complete other story!!)
I unfortunatly lost the flat I shared with my fianc! due to this and us not being able to afford it without me working :(I am now living with my parents and he is living with his parents, this is clearly not ideal and I HATE being apart from him and him being apart from our newborn baby :-(
I was told previously I cannot claim income support because I have a partner who works more than 24 hours a week despite us not living together.
How will this affect me claiming child tax credits? Is this dependant on my income alone, or mine and my partners even though we don't live together and technically he isn't financially supporting me atm or will it be based on household income-if so, will that be my parents income, if so, that seems unfair because they can't afford to support me and baby but are allowing me to live here obviously.
Myself and my partner are looking for another house but need to know roughly how much/what we're entitled too before we can look as as stated before my only income is statutory maternity allowance.
I also am aware I can't apply for the sure start grant or milk vouchers unless I'm claiming income support or child tax credits, is this correct? Seems unfair I'm not entitled unless claiming these when all I've got coming in is maternity allowance which everyone gets, I don't want my baby girl to miss out :-(
Should I say that I am currently single because me and DF don't live together and he isn't financially supporting me atm, if so, how would this change/affect us if we did manage to get a new house together?
I hope this makes sense and somebody can explain it all to me?!?
Thank you in advance.
I am in a tricky situation and need some advice/help regarding benefits.
I had my beautiful baby girl on the 11th April and am registering her next Thursday. I will then send off for child benefit.
I am currently only claiming statutory maternity pay as got fired from my ex employer (at 11 weeks pregnant) for being pregnant (complete other story!!)
I unfortunatly lost the flat I shared with my fianc! due to this and us not being able to afford it without me working :(I am now living with my parents and he is living with his parents, this is clearly not ideal and I HATE being apart from him and him being apart from our newborn baby :-(
I was told previously I cannot claim income support because I have a partner who works more than 24 hours a week despite us not living together.
How will this affect me claiming child tax credits? Is this dependant on my income alone, or mine and my partners even though we don't live together and technically he isn't financially supporting me atm or will it be based on household income-if so, will that be my parents income, if so, that seems unfair because they can't afford to support me and baby but are allowing me to live here obviously.
Myself and my partner are looking for another house but need to know roughly how much/what we're entitled too before we can look as as stated before my only income is statutory maternity allowance.
I also am aware I can't apply for the sure start grant or milk vouchers unless I'm claiming income support or child tax credits, is this correct? Seems unfair I'm not entitled unless claiming these when all I've got coming in is maternity allowance which everyone gets, I don't want my baby girl to miss out :-(
Should I say that I am currently single because me and DF don't live together and he isn't financially supporting me atm, if so, how would this change/affect us if we did manage to get a new house together?
I hope this makes sense and somebody can explain it all to me?!?
Thank you in advance.
0
Comments
-
got fired from my ex employer (at 11 weeks pregnant) for being pregnant (complete other story!!)
http://www.advicenow.org.uk/advicenow-guides/work/maternity-paternity-adoption-leave-and-pay/during-your-pregnancy,10189,FP.html0
This discussion has been closed.
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply
Categories
- All Categories
- 354.4K Banking & Borrowing
- 254.4K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 455.4K Spending & Discounts
- 247.3K Work, Benefits & Business
- 604.1K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 178.4K Life & Family
- 261.6K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.7K Read-Only Boards