Maternity Benefits
If you’re pregnant then you could qualify for the Maternity benefits such as the maternity allowance or the Official Motherhood Pay. This is dependent on a number of factors such as your employment standing, your revenues per annum and the period that you have been working with the same employer. If you have been employed by the same employer for the previous twenty-six weeks then you qualify for the Official Motherhood Pay fifteen weeks before going into labour. You should be earning the lower earnings limit. The statuary maternity pay can be paid for a period of 39 weeks. There are more benefits available as well such as the Health in Pregnancy Grant. You might also be able to obtain help in the shape of Healthy Start vouchers and free vitamins. The healthful start vouchers are meant to help with the price of food items such as fruit and veggies. Nevertheless your income would be the variable deciding whether you qualify for such a grant.
The Health in Pregnancy Grant is given out as a lump sum payment of 190 Pounds to pregnant mothers who have stepped into the 25th week of their pregnancy before the first of January 2011. This grant is supposed to help the pregnant women in getting ready for labour. All of the qualifying girls get an identical quantity and this grant does not have any impact what so ever on any other sort of benefits. You must have got information from a doctor or a midwife to qualify for the Health in Pregnancy Grant. It must be remembered this grant is available only to those who are normally resident with in the United Kingdom and if you’re not ordinarily resident or are under the watch of immigration control then you cannot receive this grant. All that you need to do in order to receive this grant is that obtain the claim form and fill it out. This claim form would be available with your health practitioner or the mid better half. Fill in the shape and get the doctor or the midwife to fill in their part. Then take it to the HMRC and get your grant. It must be remembered the claim form must be brought to the HMRC with in 31 days of it being signed by the doctor or midwife ; otherwise there is the danger of loosing out on the grant. The grant would be paid in directly in to the deposit account.
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