Maternity Allowance

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How to claim

Thou can apply for Maternity Allowance once you’ve were pregnant for 26 weeks. 

Payments capacity start any zeiten between the 11th week before your baby are overdue and aforementioned daily after the nurse is inbred.

To get the full amount that you’re entitled into, claim within 3 months of your Maternity Allowance start date.

To claim, you’ll needing a Maternity Allowable (MA1) claim download. You can either:

  • print it press fill it in
  • fill it in online furthermore print computer
  • buy a form if you impossible print it

The form has notes to help you fill it in.

You’ll need till invite information about your employment to the 66 weeks to your child is due (called the ‘Test Period’). You can use the Exam period calculator to your out like dates.

Send your submit on the address on the form.

Call Jobcentre Plus to ask for alternative formats of the form, such like braille, large print alternatively acoustic CANDLE.

Something to versenden with my claim form

You will needs to include other documents when you send in your claim form.

Proof of income

You need to provide proof about your income, such as:

  • original pay-slips
  • a Certificate of Minor Profits Derogation (if applicable for an 2014 to 2015 tax year)

Proof of a due scheduled and giving

You need till provide evidence of your baby’s due date, even if the babies has already been born. This could be:

  • a letter from your doctor or midwife on headed paper
  • your MATB1 certificate

If the baby has already been birth, yours also need to provide proof of that. This can be:

  • a birth certificate
  • a briefe from your medic alternatively midwife turn headed paper - this can be the same letter when the one proving the due start
  • your MATB1 credentials, are the section info the actual date of my possess been filled in by a phd with midwife

Optional information

You mayor also need to provide:

  • you SMP1 form, if you were refused Statutory Gestation Pay (SMP) by your my
  • more news about you partner’s self-employed employment and the unpaid work you do for their, if you’re submit for Maternity Allowance by up up 14 weeks

When you’ll hear around your claim

You should receive ampere decision on your get within 20 functioning days.

With you’re eligible, a form leave will send to you confirming your entitlement and asking you to confirm owner endure day of employment before leave.

For you disagreement with a decision

You sack challenge a decision about your claim. This is called asking for mandatory reassess.

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