Maternity ALLOWANCE question 🙋🏼‍♀️

My little boy is 6 months. I am starting a business which will take off when my Maternity allowance ends BUT I’ve been offered a couple of great opportunities now! My question is has anyone earned extra money or started a business whilst on maternity allowance???

Everything I’m reading says you can do freelance work on SMP, but not Maternity Allowance?? How is that fair first of all😂 but any advice??
Before my mat leave I was working at a supermarket and my leave date for them is the end of May when my mat leave ends.

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That’s correct, you can’t earn any money whilst claiming maternity allowance but you can do 10 keeping in touch days

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jheeez that’s not fair 😂 I am deffo not doing any keeping in touch days starting at 4am💀😂

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Yes, you can’t on MA. That’s because MA is for freelancers (mostly) and they are supposed to stop in that business (except for the KIT days)

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