Maternity Pay

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Hi all I need some advice on maternity pay. I am 25 weeks and working for two jobs.

1. As early years practitioner at private nursery (20 h a week)
2. Midday assistant (approx 6 h a week) working in a school for Redbridge council.

I have given MatB1 form at both places. Nursery will be giving me mat pay but council still did not hear anything.

Questions :
I am planning to start mat leave from 20th July from nursery and mid June from school.
But HMRC says mat leave will at same time at both places. But I am not getting any mat pay from school as m not earning much from there.
I am confused what to do.
Shall i quit school job or take mat leave on 20th July from both places.
I hope my long post make sense.
Thanks in advance.

in all honesty i would take the time to contact HMRC and speak to someone over the phone regarding this, you don't want to take someones advice that may not know, or a "my sisters old friend did that" or something. Rules change constantly so just to be on the safe side, contact HMRC and get the proper advice from them.

Sorry if i or no one else on here can help, just don't want you losing out on money by taking incorrect advice! xx

Agree that you should contact HMRC but I think you do have to take mat leave at the same time from both jobs... Like PP said, best to check properly though :-)

Thanks @GlamBump and @Aw12345
Will call HMRC on Monday. Thanks .

Do call HMRC but in the interim you can run this calculator and it will give you more information www.gov.uk/maternity-paternity-calculator

Thanks@MaverickSnoopy I have tried this calculator. Getting from one job but nothing from other. 😒

Do you earn £116 per week or more at the school? That's the lower earnings limit for statutory maternity pay. If you don't earn this you won't be entitled.

@confusedandemployed no m getting £200/ m. 😕

The government have made its website very user unfriendly. They’ve put the barest of detail instead of the full in depth guides.

Assuming you are employed & not a casual worker or agency as both jobs are separate you can take different maternity leave dates from both. However as you earn under the limit for the school job you won’t get any SMP.