Maternity allowance

So, baby is due in less than 6 weeks. And I still haven’t filled out my form to claim maternity allowance, purely because I’ve completely forgot about it and I’ve been so ill during pregnancy it’s been the last thing I’ve thought about🙃 just reading all the forms now, and it says if you claim later than 3 months before you want your maternity allowance payments to start you might not get the full allowance? Does that mean just for the first month or for the full time?😫 Stressed!! Why do they make these forms so complicated!

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Get it sent in ASAP I would. They take ages to reply. I sent mine in October and only just had confirmation yesterday and my payments are still going to be delayed 🥴

@Chloe it’s really stressing me out😫 and I have to send them 13 payslips of my highest wage throughout my whole test period! But part of that test period I was working for a different company and I now can’t access those payslips🙃 so stressful!

I think it may be more so the wait time to be accepted and if there is information they have to contact you for it could take longer. For me: I sent my letter away end of October, i got a letter asking for a few payslips i forgot to put in I sent them last week after I was contacted and I now have my letter confirming i got the full amount sent today. It took 3/4 weeks with a minor complication, I would get it all sent in as soon as you can gal but you should have it sorted in time for baby xxx

We're you paid monthly or weekly? As I know it was 13 weeks of payslips so if that's monthly it's only 4. I get it's stressful I had the same🥴

@Chloe so my job now is weekly, but my previous job which I was working at during my test period was monthly🙃

Its 13 of your highest paying weeks gal so it would be 3 payslips roughly if its monthly pay, i got paid every two weeks so i had 6. If you have enough from the job you have access too i would try just using that to save you the stress xx

I sent my forms off on Monday 18th November and had a text from them on Saturday 23rd November letting me know they had received my application and will hear within 4 weeks, so you may still have time but defo get it all filled out and sent off as soon as you can! X

I sent mine off, but I was sent another form back saying I sent mine too early and to send the form back just as I’m about to leave work. I due to leave on the 10th December, I’m sending my form back off this week! Try and not worry - you will hear back from them. They said to me on the phone it’s common for people to either send their forms too early or too late x

I maybe being stupid but what form is this and where do you find it? I definitely haven’t filled any forms out and I’m 34 weeks 😳

@Emma are you getting paid maternity pay from your job? If so, I don’t think you need to apply for maternity allowance! I’m only applying for it because my employers won’t pay me statutory maternity pay because I haven’t been there long enough x

Yes I am, that’s probably why then. Thanks for confirming

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