Mat Leave

K-lou · Apr 30, 2009 5:05AM

Hi girls well after months of asking them I finally got my amounts that I would get while I was off and to be hoenst I thought it was going to be more. This was gross only so not sure about net but a lady who only worked part time got just under what I got and so I thought being a fully time worker and being on more money than her I would have got more a week?

K xx
26 weeks

MrsNaps · Apr 29, 2009 11:43AM

I think it depends on if your company has its own mat leave policy doesn't it?
SMP will be ??123.06 per week - doesn't matter how much you were on before i dont think.

K-lou · Apr 29, 2009 11:44AM

Also another thing, I know i have asked this before but you do not get taxed the 22% do you while you are off those 33 weeks you get SMP and anything extra work wants to add on??

I am on line now looking but can't find it anywhere how much tax you do have to pay while on Mat leave, does anybody know?

K xx
26 weeks

K-lou · Apr 29, 2009 11:45AM

Yeah thats the SMP pay, I just thought work was adding more on than they were but it must be right. Thats not bad I am pleased I actually know know how much a week I will be getting gross and I also get a lump sum when I have been back for three months as well.

k XX
26 WEEKS

Team_Blue_aka_doublebubble · Apr 29, 2009 11:48AM

my company do 90% of your earning for 6 weeks then the flat SMP rate of ??112 ish or 90% of your earnings which ever is lower. my part time earnings made me get ??105 a week whereas my friend who worked full time only got ??20 or so more
xxDBxx

MummyG3 · Apr 29, 2009 11:50AM

Your lucky your getting a package, my friend is getting a package at her work too, all I get at my work is SMP, and ive been here since 2004 and its a Solicitors firm so you'd have thought they would have a proper package set up for their employees.

Gxx

K-lou · Apr 29, 2009 11:55AM

Thats really poor that they are not giving you more than SMP. To be hoenst I just thought I would get more due to my friend who was on part time work and we are getting roughly the same a month so not sure how they work it out. It's not a bad things at all the first 6 weeks i get ??476 gross and then 33 weeks I get ??158.94 before tax.

Hubby is pleased I think it just helps us so much to know a figure now to work with but we own three huge cc and then you have rent and bills and so on like everybody else so we will JUST about manage I think.

K xx
26 weeks

Ladywithalittleboy · Apr 29, 2009 11:56AM

Georgie - I work for a solicitors and its rubbish too - although a bit better than yours. 100% for 6 weeks (you should get 90% for 6 weeks - I think that is statutory) and then SMP for the rest. In my last firm (London law firm) you got however much when you were off - then when you returned to work you got a bonus which basically made it up to full pay for the whole of your mat leave - and you could get that early (before you came back) if you wanted to. My friend works for a bank in London and she also gets 100% for her whole mat leave. It's just doesn't seem fair does it !!!

K x
15+1

K-lou · Apr 29, 2009 12:00PM

Yeah I am meant to get 50% of my wage for the 33 weeks but they break that up so I get 60% of my 50% while I am off which is ??158 and then the 40% for the 33 weeks as a lump sum when I get back to work for three months full time though have towork 6 months or need to pay all that extra they give you back.

SMP is now ??123 a month.

K xx
26 weeks

annem1982 · Apr 29, 2009 12:31PM

I only get the SMP too. I only work part time though so I will be coming out with roughly the same as I am getting now.

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mummyGG · Apr 29, 2009 2:47PM

I will get 100% for 6 weeks and then SMP for 33 weeks...rubbish isnt it! But hey ho, I knew this before we fell pregnant, so we have been prepared...we cleared all debts and have a good savings balance for an emergency! xxxx

Chocbutton · Apr 29, 2009 2:52PM

i get full pay for 6 weeks, half pay for 18 weeks then the rest SMP, i'm also taking the 3 months unpaid... i hope!

ButterflyBride123 · Apr 29, 2009 3:06PM

Do we get taxed on our SMP??

I get 12 weeks full pay, 27 weeks SMP!

Butterfly
30+6

malkymum · Apr 29, 2009 3:13PM

Yep, you do pay tax and NI on your SMP, if you claim MA however, say your on benefits or don't qualify for SMP, you don't. Not fair really?

goonie_mummy · Apr 30, 2009 3:10AM

You will pay tax on smp but remember that if you don't have a very good maternity package your earnings won't be very high and as most people will be entitled to over ??6000 a year free pay you probably won't pay much tax at all, if any!

I'm very lucky that I will get 26 weeks full pay and then 13 weeks smp. Without such a good package we couldn't have afforded to have a baby as our monthly out goings are almost 3k.

Bec 37+6 x

Bert666 · Apr 30, 2009 4:50AM

SMP is now ??123 a month.

K xx
26 weeks

Is it not ??123 a week??? If not, I am royally screwed!!

K-lou · Apr 30, 2009 4:58AM

I read that it was hun, its gone up I read that yesterday on the Gov web site

K xx
26+1

goonie_mummy · Apr 30, 2009 5:02AM

It is ??123 a week Bert don't worry

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Bert666 · Apr 30, 2009 5:03AM

pppphhhheeeeeewww!!!

Amber-Lous-Mum · Apr 30, 2009 5:05AM

I get full pay for 8 weeks, half pay plus SMP for 13 weeks and then just SMP for 18 weeks, then Im working 3 months unpaid. But it's not bad as my employer will add up the total amount you would be paid over the 9 months and divide it between the 52 weeks I will be off so although I get less in each pay packet at least I have a fixed amount coming in each month. Though it was such a shock to the system when I realsied Id only be getting ??750 a month on mat leave which is half what I get now then going back p/t I would be getting about the same. Bye Bye decent wages for good! I now have to make sure the car is paid off by the time I start mat leave - oops!

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