CM Club: How long does Maternity Allowance application take?

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I sent of my application for maternity allowance today - how long can I expect to wait before I hear?

I got a reply quite quickly-within 2 weeks, suppose it depends how busy they are.

Thanks flier - hope postal strike doesnt delay it too much!

oh.....what do we get these days??? bit early days but i need to know at some point

Its 112.75 a week i think, for 39 weeks as long as nat ins contributions up to date.

Cool, will have to decide whether to take that or just have couple of weeks hol.

I still havent heard anything about this - its been nearly a month. Does this mean I might not get it?

I still havent heard anything about this - its been nearly a month. Does this mean I might not get it?

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anyone know? im starting to worry

Hiya Pecka, I don't know at all, I'll be watching this in case I need it (presume if I close for a month I can claim a months worth?)

Have you tried phoning them?

Yeah think you can claim it for any time under the 39 weeks or whatever. You basically claim then stop when you return to work.

I have just phoned them and they have recieved the claim and I should hear in next week or so.

Arggghhh SO hope I get it!

You should get it - why wouldn't you?

The impression I got from website (I'm 23 weeks pregnant and counting!) was that as we are self-employed and if you pay NI then you get MA regardless of your income - meaning you don't have to do all those odd calcs about which are the highest 13 weeks of income in the last 66 or something like that!

See this page 25 (and the rest if you can face trawling through it now LT!)