Maternity pay (UK)

You will get child benefit which is about £80 for 1 child a month. There may be other entitlements depending on your husbands salary, but I think most people don’t qualify for anything extra.

Have a look at sprout perks. It’s a like a discount site for mums on mat leave.

I’m in a really bad situation when it’s come to smp. I changed my job in Feb and when we went into lockdown I found out I wasn’t eligible for any furlough payment. I fell pregnant in April and now because I’m technically still employed but had no pay since March (store still not reopened) I have not qualified for smp as my earnings to low! I can now only apply for maternity allowance which from what I’ve heard is more than half less than smp. I don’t know what to do. I’m now in so much debt to try and get by the past 7 months and now. My husbands earning pays the house and car bills but my personal bills are just adding up. I do get some tax credits but it’s not enough to live on with having two growing kids. 😫

I can live on about £600 a month because aside from rent and about half the household bills which my partner pays I have pretty low fixed outgoings. Also my company screwed up my pay a bit so I was over paid which about equaled £600 per month for the last few months but I did have this covered with savings id made while pregnant. Also the last month was using my annual leave so I was one my full pay again so I could top my savings account back up a little.

For the next baby I likely won’t have a job (freelance) so I’ll get less maternity pay so I need to save up more especially as I aim to keep my first in nursery and I won’t get as mush child benefit for the second but at least I have a lot of the stuff already.

I buy an awful lot of my daughter stuff second hand which massively helps and I can sell stuff to recoup costs too.

You guys are so lucky. In the US, you either go back to work after 6 weeks, or you make sure ahead of time you are set. They don’t pay anything after 6 weeks. Some companies if you’re lucky will pay up until 12 weeks, but you’re on your own after that.

Nope not at all from me we had enhanced pay but I wasn’t there 2 years the struggle was VERY REAL luckily my partner was on hand

I’m actually going back now and luckily will be working from home the majority of the time if I have another it will be wel saves for this little one was a big surprise lol