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Self Employed & Maternity Allowance?
Piggy_2
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Hi
I've just found out I'm pregnant and I'm planning to become self employed soon and pay class 2 National Insurance contributions so should be able to claim full Maternity Allowance when the time comes. But I have a question about it - I don't plan to work when I'm on maternity leave but the nature of my business which is website publishing means that the websites I would have created should hopefully still be earning money on their own through advertising (Google Adsense) which would have already been put in place, without me having to actually work on it for a few months. Does anyone know if this will affect my maternity allowance because of the clause that says you're not allowed to work during maternity leave except for a maximum of 10 "keep in touch" days?
Or has anyone been in a similar situation? I guess it's the same as any business/work that can still generate income without having to actively work on it, for example - an author receiving royalties from a book, or a proprietor of a business not working themselves whilst claiming maternity allowance but employing someone to run it for them and the business still generating them an income.
I've looked for the answer to this question everywhere and phoned up Jobcentre Plus who couldn't answer the question even after asking various supervisors!
I've just found out I'm pregnant and I'm planning to become self employed soon and pay class 2 National Insurance contributions so should be able to claim full Maternity Allowance when the time comes. But I have a question about it - I don't plan to work when I'm on maternity leave but the nature of my business which is website publishing means that the websites I would have created should hopefully still be earning money on their own through advertising (Google Adsense) which would have already been put in place, without me having to actually work on it for a few months. Does anyone know if this will affect my maternity allowance because of the clause that says you're not allowed to work during maternity leave except for a maximum of 10 "keep in touch" days?
Or has anyone been in a similar situation? I guess it's the same as any business/work that can still generate income without having to actively work on it, for example - an author receiving royalties from a book, or a proprietor of a business not working themselves whilst claiming maternity allowance but employing someone to run it for them and the business still generating them an income.
I've looked for the answer to this question everywhere and phoned up Jobcentre Plus who couldn't answer the question even after asking various supervisors!
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