maternity allowance ni test period

Just a quick question, if your sending off payslips for maternity allowance, can the payslips be ones which include holiday hours? I know that I've asked this question before, but I think I phrased it so badly that nobody understood it. Find the week that includes your expected date of 2. (from experience) Jess, Hi all wondered if anyone could help am currently 30 weeks pregnant due 20th jan 2015 first baby! I got my letter back today and it says I'm not entitled as I haven't worked 26 weeks out of 66 in my test period! As long as you have been paying class 2 NI for 13 weeks in the 66 week test period, then you will receive the full MA alowance for up to 39 weeks 2. Any money you get can affect your other benefits. You go off your due date, and it will show you your 'test period'. If she's going to claim it as self employed then she needs to have paid 13 class 2 NI contributions over the test period which is the 56 weeks before the baby is due I think. Look across the table to find the dates of the confinement in Luckily i have a fantastic network of family and friends, including other military gf's/wives and im so anal so i have made sure i have every single phone number possibly needed while he is away ha ha, Hi all wondered if anyone could help am currently 30 weeks pregnant due 20th jan 2015 first baby! I still sent in payslips for the months I was employed so should be interesting to … depending when your baby is born, I imagine your joint income for tax year 2014-15 will already have exceeded that figure. Is there a number you can ring with the info? I am self employed but had a small earnings exemption certificate up until last week. Posted 11/09/2016. Ring the call centre that deals with maternity allowance. Page 2. Always seek professional advice relevant to your circumstances. Name and address of employer Maternity allowance is basically for people who can't claim SSP through their employer. Providing you have paid at least 13 weeks' Class 2 NICs in your 66 test period, either through your Self-Assessment or earlier through the exceptions process, you are entitled to standard rate Maternity Allowance of £148.68 pw. Im in the process of claiming for Maternity Allowance, and having read the rules and eligibility criteria i have worked out that i have only worked 24/25 weeks of the 66 week test period prior to my due date (14.10.12). I worked casual hours. It wonât affect your tax credits but could affect how much you get in universal credit, jobseekers allowance, housing benefit and council tax reduction. You can claim Maternity Allowance as soon as youâve been pregnant for 26 weeks. standard rate of Maternity Allowance or 90% of your average weekly earnings if this calculation results in a figure which is less than the standard rate of Maternity Allowance. The earliest you can get paid maternity allowance is 11 weeks before your baby is due, and the latest is from the day of your babyâs birth. If one parent earns Â£50k, child benefit starts to taper off, if that parent earns Â£60k then you get nothing. The earliest you can get your first payment is 11 weeks before your baby is due. However if you estimate your 2015-16 income, it may be less than Â£26k because you will be on mat leave, so you may be eligible. Thanks in advance :) x, https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/money-advice-1127/benefits-entitlements-267/800124-new-mum-maternity-allowance-help.html#post8070944. Carer's Allowance Call 0800 587 0912 Email dcs.incomingpostteamdhc2@nissa.gsi.gov.uk Discretionary support / Short-term benefit advance Call 0800 587 2750 Email customerservice.unit@communities-ni.gov.uk Call 0800 587 A bit of background first: 1. Thanks in advance. If you have a problem whilst he is away, the Army will have a families liason officer to help - however I think you will find the other Mums and girlfriends can offer more support. However, during the weeks that i was not working throughout this time, i was claiming JSA so my NI contributions would have been paid, and the only reason i have not made it to 26 weeks of employment is because i had to quit my last job due to pregnancy complications and have been signed off sick by my doctor and claiming ESA (employment support allowance) since my employment terminated. If you need a bit more help and support, please contact SSAFA or your local CAB , either of us can help you. Kim - I think you need to start a new thread as the query your asking about is totally different to what the OP has asked. Talk to other parents about benefits and entitlements, whether you have questions about Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applications, maintenance payments or tax credits. Wendy. Please see page 9 of the Notes sheet and enclose the payslips for those 13 weeks. Thank you for all the advice I've never had to apply before so don't know how long it usually takes for it to be processed and to hear back. You could get Maternity Allowance for 14 weeks if for at least 26 weeks in the 66 weeks before your baby is due: youâre married or in a civil partnership. I think that's correct anyway, we have no chance of either of us ever getting close to earning 50k so doesn't apply to us ! Payments can start 11 weeks before your baby is due. The number is 0845 608 8610. You must have been employed or self-employed for at least 26 weeks of the test period (66 weeks up to and including the week before your baby is due). Welcome to Netmums :hiya: Please note, as a peer-to-peer support board, this area is not intended to substitute professional financial advice and Netmums has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting. I have come across this information on another forum. My partner is heading out to afghanistan (he is a serving soldier) in less than 2 weeks and im struck with worry about what kind of money im going to be entitled to to keep our little families head above water while hes deployed. I'm in the process of applying for maternity allowance as I'll be taking a break from my business for at least 3 months when baby comes. Again this would mean my NI contributions have been and are still being paid as my sick note goes up until 16th august. It all counted and I just sent in my 4 highest payslips within the timescale. You do not have to be physically working to claim you just have to have been registered as self employed with HMRC. Mines an interesting one as I was still employed for 2 months at the start of my test period (but on mat leave from baby number 1) and registered as self employed the following month. You will get the full amount of maternity allowance if you have paid enough national insurance (NI) contributions. You can use the benefit calculator on the Turn2us site to see what you may be entitled to claim. You will definately get child benefit of approx Â£20 a week. You However you can have both parents on an income of Â£49k each and still continue to get it I think which seems absurd but is the way it currently works. One week I did one shift, the next none and the next I may have done 5. This will depend on your National Insurance (NI) contributions in recent years. Employer 1 . To be eligible you need to have worked 26 weeks. Im planning to point all of the above out on my claim form which im submitting this week, but just wondered if anyone else has been/or is in, the same situation and could offer some much needed advice? You don't have to provide proof of earnings as they take it that you are earning the minimum due to paying the class 2 NI OP - I found the maternity allowance section always answered the phone quickly and we're happy to give advise on claims so I would give them a call. Maternity Allowance Table to work out your Test Period How to use the table to work out your Test Period 1. So here goes again. I've filed my tax return for 2016/2017 and paid class 2 national insurance contributions for the 2016/2017 tax year (even though based on my first years profit I … - Page 2 When you go back to work you may be eligible for help with childcare costs as long as you both work 16+ hours week and your baby is in Ofsted registered childcare. It's quite high) x. Hiya everyone! Im in the process of claiming for Maternity Allowance, and having read the rules and eligibility criteria i have worked out that i have only worked 24/25 weeks of the 66 week test period prior to my due date (14.10.12). I posted last week after work said im not entitled to maternity pay. depending when your baby is born, I imagine your joint income for tax year 2014-15 will already have exceeded that figure. However if you estimate your 2015-16 income, it may be less than Â£26k because you will be on mat leave, so you may be eligible. 2021 Test Period Tables The week that includes The first and last day The week that includes The first and last day your expected date of of your 66 weeks Test your expected date of of your 66 weeks Test confinement. A got a letter saying i wasnt entitled too the maternity grant because i wasnt reciveing the income suport just was recieving job seekers and too ring back when a was getting income surport so a rang back today and he said they would take another look at my claim just wondered if anyone has had this problem and how long it took for a responce? You do not have to be physically working to claim you just have to have been registered as self employed with HMRC. Im in the process of claiming for Maternity Allowance, and having read the rules and eligibility criteria i have worked out that i have only worked 24/25 weeks of the 66 week test period prior to my due date (14.10.12). Just unsure wether or not they will accept payslips which are from weeks when I received holiday pay/ basic pay and holiday pay. I think Jesse's comment is useful if anyone has been self-employed, but I am not clear that this applies to your situation. The test period is the 66 weeks up to and including the week before the week your baby is due. The cut off for tax credits with one child is around Â£26k, that is without childcare costs. Due to him working and earning were not entitled to any benefits at the moment, apart from my maternity benefits, and i am currently claiming ESA whilst i am signed off sick, which will terminate once i apply for maternity allowance. h�x�69?�6�OՊ�t�`*_�J}vy�s��4:D�93��hj�zC`'h��J7��2�lrQ.��W�c Ӯ&w��My:Yר��)�|�r�)�?8y�Ϙ�e��qҹ'k�-A�Ɵ�$�N�ჭ�. Anyone know? Even if you didn't earn enough or pay enough NI contributions in that time as self-employed, you have the option to pay them now - it should still work out better to get the MA. The earliest your maternity allowance period can start is 11 weeks before the week in which you expect your baby. Also you need to have been paying class 2 NIC for 13 weeks withut having a Small exemption certificate in place to get the standard rate. I @purplefig No - This is how to do it: 1. I will leave a message now for our CAB workers to give you some advice :hug: Hi Hayley I am also new, I have been looking for advice too, I think I may need to start a new thread. To qualify, you must have paid NI for at … For more info, check out. Look across the table to find the dates of the confinement in the Test Thank you for your PM alerting me to your thread. Maternity Allowance if youâre self-employed Me and my partner do live together, in private rented accomodation and his wages will be supporting us while he is away. I'm in the process of applying for maternity allowance as I'll be taking a break from my business for at least 3 months when baby comes. They are the only people that will understand how you will be feeling. Single mum on benefits, can't afford to live. Would you happen to know, once the baby is born, wether we would be entitled to working tax credits as he doesnt earn more than Â£20k and i would still be on maternity leave. I sent them a cheque and a letter stating to use the payment specifically for contributions during my test period. Four payslips actually covers 16 weeks and as far as I can remember they didn't ask for actual dates worked. We need you to choose 13 weeks worth of payslips from within your Test Period that you worked out in section b of Part 3, so we can work out how much Maternity Allowance you can get. To be eligible It does not matter if these weeks are split up or if they are not all for the same employer. Part 4 About your employed earnings . (from experience) Jess :D. Hi Hayley, To be eligible you need to have worked 26 weeks. Just wondering if anyone could help. waitingonbubba3. Thank you for your advice re the family liason etc. Then you can work out what you were doing at that time. To get MA your earnings, on average, must be at least equal to the Maternity Allowance Threshold (MAT) which applies at the beginning of your test period. The cut off for tax credits with one child is around Â£26k, that is without childcare costs. Knew it was somewhere near that amount :), https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/money-advice-1127/benefits-entitlements-267/800124-new-mum-maternity-allowance-help.html#post12237960, Maternity allowance and sure start maternity grant, Can you work, whilst claiming maternity allowance. Hello! You cannot claim more than 14 weeks before the week in which you expect your baby. As in the number for the benefit office who will be dealing with it? Part 1 About you Updated the English versions of the Maternity Allowance claim form with new test period tables covering 2018 to 2019. Maternity Allowance (MA) is a benefit for women who are working, or have worked recently, but who do not qualify for Statutory Maternity Pay. They rang me with a question about my application - really sensible and helpful, and really quick to get sorted. When you go back to work you may be eligible for help with childcare costs as long as you both work 16+ hours week and your baby is in Ofsted registered childcare. Driving me bonkers! Congratulations on your pregnancy! So I'm trying to work out now whether I'll be eligible for Maternity Allowance IF I decided not to work at all before the birth. It does seem crazy that a one income family gets it cut off at Â£60k yet a dual earner family can have a combined income of almost Â£100k and still get it ! Aimee B(130) Posted on 26-10-2015 at 2.51PM ... An 80 minute phone call to HMRC - told to write requesting a national insurance bill, pay bill, claim maternity allowance based on self employment, told this can take around 6 weeks to get a bill. So I'm trying to work out now whether I'll be eligible for Maternity Allowance IF I decided not to work at all before the birth. Also, you don't have to have physically worked 26 weeks, just been on the books/pay role for 26 weeks then they will pay you based on what you earned. Kim - I think you need to start a new thread as the query your asking about is totally different to what the OP has asked. The number is 0845 608 8610. So I would imagine that any time on sick would count. Even though you are not physically living together, it's most likely you would be considered a couple and he would be expected to have some financial responsibility for you and the baby. 4 May 2016 Replaced all 3 versions with March 2016 editions. Please tell us below about your employer or employers during your Test Period. - My test period is from 1/08/10 - 05/11/11 (66 weeks) and my exemption period was from 10/10/10-6/05/11. Maternity Allowance Table to work out your Test Period How to use the table to work out your Test Period 1. Maternity Allowance is paid for up to 39 weeks. I have come across this information on another forum. We can check your benefit entitlement and make sure you are getting all that you are entitled to. Then you can work out what you were doing at that time. So as long as you have been registered for 26 weeks during the 66 week test period you will be fine. Hello Hayley, Just wondering if anyone could help. If one parent earns Â£50k, child benefit starts to taper off, if that parent earns Â£60k then you get nothing. Hope you get sorted :), https://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/money-advice-1127/benefits-entitlements-267/800124-new-mum-maternity-allowance-help.html#post12237906. You will definately get child benefit of approx Â£20 a week. —(1) The specified period for the purposes of section 35A(4) and (5) of the Contributions and Benefits Act shall, subject to paragraph (2), be the period of 13 consecutive weeks falling within the test period in respect of which a woman’s average weekly earnings determined in … However you can have both parents on an income of Â£49k each and still continue to get it I think which seems absurd but is the way it currently works. A got a letter saying i wasnt entitled too the maternity grant because i wasnt reciveing the income suport just was recieving job seekers and too ring back when a was getting income surport so a rang back today and he said they would take another look at my claim just wondered if anyone has had this problem and how long it took for a responce? Please see page 9of the Notes sheetand enclose the payslips for those 13 weeks. The amount of Maternity Allowance you will receive will depend on your Class 2 National Insurance contributions. Your claim to Maternity Allowance (MA) will be decided on the work you have â¦ I was on maternity leave from Dec '07 to Dec '08 2. Get your books up to date. If you get paid monthly you send in 4 pay slips (13 if you got paid weekly). I'll give them a call tomorrow and see what they say, but i just wondered if anyone else had any info or been in the same situation. We need you to choose 13 weeks worth of payslips from within your Test Period that you worked out in section b of Part 3, so we can work out how much Maternity Allowance you can get. I have 14 weeks left of my test period to make NI contributions. I have their number, but to be honest, ive enquired a few things with them, and 9 times out of 10 theyre not entirely sure themselves. Self-employed women may also get Maternity Allowance. Maternity Allowance HELP Test Period? 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