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Has anyone had their health in pregnancy grant paid yet?

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Just looked at the site and it says we'll get payments in April directly into bank. Has anyone had theirs yet?
Not sure about mine, I'll check bank tomorrow.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sun 02-Aug-09 18:24:33
Hi all i left a message to say i had sent the form and i,d let you know, well i am really pleased, couldnt believe how fast it was, all in all it took 9 days from posting it to being in my bank, hope you all get it as fast as me!grin
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 30-Jul-09 09:03:48
I know that this grant is 'free' money and that we should all be grateful for it, but why such a hassle to get it?

My troubles started with the doctor's / midwife! It took me three weeks to get my midwife to sign one for me in the first place, then she left it with the receptionist at my surgery, who then promptly posted it 'on my behalf' of course i hadn't filled my sections of the form in having never laid eyes on it myself, how very clever this individual must be to have sent in a blank form!!!

In HMRC defence they did track me down and send the form back to me to fill in, fantastic i thought what service! However, I have rung them today to check that they received it, to be told that the grant had been awarded but the computer that scans the forms read my bank account number wrong and so it hadn't been paid, this was 2 weeks ago that they processed the form! If the system threw up this error how difficult would it be to manually check the form, also why was i not notified of the error and asked to resubmit my bank details! Everything has now gone to their head office, so who knows how much longer, this has been going on 5 weeks already (and that's not including the time it took for my MW to sign the blasted thing in the first place!). Have to laugh about it really, British efficiency at its very best LOL!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 27-Jul-09 19:09:56
I sent mine about 11 days ago and it has been paid into my account... I wondered why I still had money in there hmm!

I have not had a letter yet.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 27-Jul-09 17:41:47
mine took 10 days from sending the form to being in my bank,didnt recieve letter till a few days after it had gone in bank so keep checking your bank.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 27-Jul-09 09:09:19
I posted my form off for the £190 grant on the 22nd of july its now the 27th of july i,m hoping there fast at paying it in my bank coz really need the money at the moment, i,ll let you all know how long it takes.hmm
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 22-Jul-09 16:52:12
I was told by my midwife that it only takes a few weeks to be processed in to you bank account and i sent my form of on 18th July so fingers crossed they will process it soon as they get it and there wont be any complications :-)
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 10-Jun-09 12:47:18
I got the form from the midwife 21st may, probably posted it about the 25th and it's been paid into my account today. So it looks like they are getting more efficient.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 09-Jun-09 15:44:33
Just recieved mine only waited 3 weeks so was very pleased
Got mine on Friday - less than three weeks from sending off the form!
mine went in yesterday and I only applied about a month ago! yay! grin
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