Government Pregnancy Grant

[joshandjamie]

Hi

A while back there was a discussion about the Government Pregnancy Grant, where all pregnant women get £190 for health related issues/healthy eating in later pregnancy.

Just wondered, have people been getting this money and if so, what have you ACTUALLY been spending it on?

Strawberrysam - do you know if the government has a list of the things you're supposed to spend it on?

DW is almost 20 weeks pregnant, we will be adding this to the baby stuff pot also!

It's free money from the government, surely people don't get too worried if they're not directly spending it on fruit and vegetables, do they? I'm sure all mums to be who post on here get a good varied diet anyway

When do we receive this payment? Is it a cheque?

you have to apply for the money

This is the website to find out more:

campaigns2.direct.gov.uk/money4mum2be/en/

I am going to speak to my midwife about it when I next see her.

lol at people thinking they should spend it on healthy eating

um who actually does that, everyone just adds it to the pot don't they?

what are you going to do, stick in a jar and take £2 out with you when you go get some bananas?

I am about to apply for mine and I wondered the same thing.
Dh and I have agreed that we will use it to pay for a meal and the rest will go in the mortgage pot.
(we do eat very well anyway)
Not quite what it is intended for but given it is handed out at 25 weeks it seems a little daft to me.

I think they realised they couldn't make people spend it on healthy food, so they made the title much looser.

It makes me wonder why they didn't set up a voucher scheme. Probably too expensive.

It does seem to me a bit of a flawed scheme now. I can see it's a good idea to spend money on healthy food but as it stands, there is no way to ensure people do this and I guess pretty much everyone is adding it to 'the pot'.