Would I be entitled to any benefits?
Hi girls,
I am not pregnant but g/c as though you ladies would be clued in on the current maternity benefit rules. Anyway long story short hubby and I are living abroad but want to move to UK in the next year (both british anyway so wanna get back home!) We are thinking of waiting until back before ttc but time is a ticking for me (or at least I feel it is!). So if we move back I know I would have have been in work 26 weeks by the 15th week before my due date (if I got that right). But do you know if I'd be entitled to anything is I was pregnant when started a new UK job or if I decided not to work until after baby born?
Also how long generally do you have to be with an employer before they give you their own more generous maternity leave (I know not all employers do but for those who did)?
Thanks in advance for your help!
I am not pregnant but g/c as though you ladies would be clued in on the current maternity benefit rules. Anyway long story short hubby and I are living abroad but want to move to UK in the next year (both british anyway so wanna get back home!) We are thinking of waiting until back before ttc but time is a ticking for me (or at least I feel it is!). So if we move back I know I would have have been in work 26 weeks by the 15th week before my due date (if I got that right). But do you know if I'd be entitled to anything is I was pregnant when started a new UK job or if I decided not to work until after baby born?
Also how long generally do you have to be with an employer before they give you their own more generous maternity leave (I know not all employers do but for those who did)?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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if your hubby gets a job and you decide to wait until baby is born you could claim working tax credits (depending how much he earns) and once baby is here you can get child tax credits. if you are acitivly seeking work you can put in a claim for job seekers but again it would depend on i your hubby was working and stuff.
if you are going to rent and only one of you is working, again depending on how much the income is, you can apply for council tax beneifit and also housing benifit.
be warned they are clamping down very very hard on people not working and they are not so giving with beneifits now so you may have to prove why you have decided not to work.
with your question about extra maternity pay, all i know is the nhs will pay more maternity money if you have been working for them for a year before getting pregnant but the clause is that ypou MUST return to work for them for 3 months after your maternity leave or pay back to money (anything above statatory maternity pay- speaking from experience )
good luck with your move back home x
Interesting about NHS being a year before entitled to extra - I guess most public employers will be able the same and guessing private will be same or even longer. I am thinking there is no way I will get that unless ttc takes quite a while which it might do.
i started a new job at 6 weeks pregnant and am currently on maternity leave, i get SMP which is just over ??500 a month, theres quite a lot of info here about entitlement
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Expectingorbringingupchildren/DG_10018741
like iwantanotherpls has said there are tax credits you may be entitled to if one of you is working as well as help with childcare costs although this is dependant on income, i think the new threshhold is income under 40k although its familys i think on 16k or less that get more help understandably, there is child benefit that everyone gets that is about ??20 a month although they want to phase this out from next year
HTH
the company is on dodgy ground if they were to be funny about a pregnancy so very few would risk not being nice!
you can also apply for maternity allowance if your company cant give you smp thats in the link too,