What Benfits Do You Whilst on SMP?

NoNoDrama

You get £140 a week from employer, so £600 a month! That may cover the rent, but that's it.

Until you go back to work on full pay, what benefits can/do you claim?

These online calculators are terrible for working out future events. Tried reducing salary to SMP rate and suggested WTC and CTC?!

Is this right or would it be Housing Benfit/Council Tax/Income Support?

Darksparkle

Depends on your circumstances.

Are you single or living with a partner?
How many hours do you normally work and what do you normally earn gross?
If a partner what’s their hours/income?

Darksparkle

Scratch that - just read your previous post asking the same.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5739652

Alice_Holt

Previous Post -

"Will We Be Entitled Too Any Benefits?
5th Nov 17

Other half pregnant my salary 23k , her 25 total £48k.........

Also when she is on SMP (employer only pays that £140 per week after 6 weeks) This will reduce our combined salary too approx 30k? Are we are too claim for anything then?................"


The answers to this were clear:

"Your household income would be too high for any benefits except child benefit."
Originally posted by Darksparkle

OP's response was ”Except child benefit? So we would get child benefit? How much would that be?"

p00hsticks replied "£20.70 per week for your first child. £13.70 a week for any further children."


I was going to express puzzlement as to why the OP would repeat the question. Does he think that Welfare legislation has changed in the last 2 months to benefit him and his partner?
IMO this becomes rather a waste of everyone's time.

But, if you follow the previous thread - it takes a rather bizarre twist, when the OP writes; but " if the mother was single" what benefits would be payable.
The response, predictably, is
"But she isn't single, is she? You aren't suggesting fraudulently claiming she is single, are you?"

It seems to me then, that this thread is likely to be the OP's attempt to get a answer to his " if the mother was single" what benefits would be payable. question.

What do other forumites think?



P.S. I hope that the posters I have quoted from the OP's previous thread are ok with me reposting their comments.
And good for Darksparkle on spotting the duplicated (but with crucial info omitted) thread.

poppy12345

Alice_Holt wrote: »

Previous Post -

"Will We Be Entitled Too Any Benefits?
5th Nov 17

Other half pregnant my salary 23k , her 25 total £48k.........

Also when she is on SMP (employer only pays that £140 per week after 6 weeks) This will reduce our combined salary too approx 30k? Are we are too claim for anything then?................"


The answers to this were clear:

"Your household income would be too high for any benefits except child benefit."
Originally posted by Darksparkle

OP's response was ”Except child benefit? So we would get child benefit? How much would that be?"

p00hsticks replied "£20.70 per week for your first child. £13.70 a week for any further children."


I was going to express puzzlement as to why the OP would repeat the question. Does he think that Welfare legislation has changed in the last 2 months to benefit him and his partner?
IMO this becomes rather a waste of everyone's time.

But, if you follow the previous thread - it takes a rather bizarre twist, when the OP writes; but " if the mother was single" what benefits would be payable.
The response, predictably, is
"But she isn't single, is she? You aren't suggesting fraudulently claiming she is single, are you?"

It seems to me then, that this thread is likely to be the OP's attempt to get a answer to his " if the mother was single" what benefits would be payable. question.

What do other forumites think?



P.S. I hope that the posters I have quoted from the OP's previous thread are ok with me reposting their comments.
And good for Darksparkle on spotting the duplicated (but with crucial info omitted) thread.

Spot on Alice! The OP hasn't mentioned the partners salary in their OP on this thread. Did they not realise we can look back at previous posts?

Well spotted too DS.

Alice_Holt

poppy12345 wrote: »

Did they not realise we can look back at previous posts?

Quite.

If the OP is planning a criminal career in benefit fraud, I fear it will be short lived.

NYM

Some may say that trawling through previous posts is objectionable, but it's a tool that provides a clearer picture when an OP fails to disclose all the relevant information.

sangie595

I do wonder if the people who think like this actually realise, or care, that they are making life more and more difficult for those that genuinely can't afford to live? Having a strong commitment to the maintenance of benefits for those who need them, as I get older I find it increasingly difficult to argue that position. I know that those who exploit or defraud the system are in a huge minority; and also that those who don't get the benefits they are entitled to are a larger group. But as it gets to a stage where "everyone" knows at least one person playing the system, it gets harder and harder to convince people that they should struggle to work and support themselves so that they can pay taxes to support those who don't. How did we get to a point in time where people in employment and with a reasonable income think that it is other people's responsibility to pay for their children?

I would rather have my nails pulled than vote Conservative, but it becomes so easy to understand why many working people do. It is hard to tell them that benefits are a good thing, that we need to eradicate child poverty, or even that most claimants are not scroungers, when they see people like this so often.

OP, it is a bit late to suggest that if you cannot afford children then perhaps you shouldn't have them, but if £30k isn't enough to support three people, one of whom is a baby, I should perhaps point out that nobody is forced to take maternity leave, and your partner is allowed to return to work whenever she wants after the statutory maternity period - two weeks for the majority, and four for those who work in factories.

sheramber

But it is not enough to maintain the previous lifestyle. That is the problem.

NoNoDrama

Arrrgghh being attacked by Dail Mail readers !! Circumstances change, simples.

Really should ban people who don't answer the actual question on here and get judgemental , totally unhelpful and happens all to often.

I'll answer my own question to help others:- It is Child/Tax Credit that you claim in this situation for the top up

Thank you.

BorisThomson

Your circumstances change on a weekly basis! Maybe something to work on before you bring a child into the world?