I’m going to resign before my maternity starts- do I get any help/benefits?

You can apply for universal credit as long as your partner isn’t high earning or you have savings over 16k x

Why not just stay ‘employed’ whilst on maternity leave, at least then they will sort all mat pay etc.

Agree either stay in employment till your maternity leave finishish and tell them you won't be going back or if you are in the UK you can get maternity allowance off the government which is basically what you maternity leave is it just comes directly from the government rather than you employer

Can you get signed off work with stress/illness instead temporarily and long it out a little bit? I understand you may not want the stress of that either. As others have said universal credit possibly.

Unfortunately I’m self employed so not really sure what other options you have 😓

Then 100% leave and look into government support. You need to be your best for yourself and your baby xx