Mat Pay help!

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Can anyone help me please as I don't understand my company's Mat pay. It says:

"• First eight weeks’ leave on full salary or 100% of average weekly earnings (this is inclusive of any entitlement to Statutory Maternity Pay payable during the eight week period)
• Next sixteen weeks’ leave on half salary or half weekly earnings plus Statutory Maternity Pay as entitled, paid to the extent that full normal salary is not exceeded
• Next fifteen weeks paid at flat rate Statutory Maternity Pay, as entitled
• Up to thirteen further weeks unpaid

NB: For information:
Statutory Maternity Pay is paid for a maximum of thirty nine weeks provided they have twenty six
weeks’ continuous service at a date fifteen weeks before their expected week of childbirth. ( I have) They must
have average earnings at or above the lower earnings limit. 9I have) The current benefit levels are: first six
weeks at 90% of average weekly earnings and the next twenty weeks at 90% of average weekly
earnings, or the flat rate statutory allowance, whichever is lower.

If I earn £2000 per month normally, what does the above mean? I can't work it out. Thanks.

Hi,
You’re probably best off clarifying with HR. It seems like a very good maternity pay policy!
I would read it that the first 2 months you will receive your normal salary of £2000 per month.
The following 16 weeks you will receive £1000 a month + £151 per week statutory. Then for the last part just the £151 per week until 9 months. You’re still liable for tax and NI if over the threshold x

I agree with the poster above, what a generous maternity scheme!

That's nhs policy right. Search maternity calculation calculator. I think it's on money matters. It gets you to put in your salary, mat leave start date and tells you what you are likely to be paid each month. If you are nhs you can spread your pay across your leave. So you don't end up with no pay at the end. So I've worked out on a band 7 with enhancements I'll get I think about £1200 a month if I take 11 months off. My monthly wage is usually about £2500 give or take a few hundred depending on nights or weekends

Is the £2000 gross or net? Is it a full month or a 4 week month?

Maternity money is the website you need for this. It gives you a month by month breakdown. It's fab!

If you’re working in the NHS then you should be able to speak to HR and they’ll be able to send you a breakdown of your pay before statutory mat pay is added and any deductions are taken away. There’s also options to have it averaged out over your leave.

Thanks everyone for the advice.

I just want to say you lucky thing! My company is very progressive... but stuck in the dark ages when it comes to maternity pay! SMP all the way here! :-)

Wow! I wish my company would offer this.

Definitely clarify with HR but maternity.money/ might be a good place to look too - you can input your different bits (like X weeks and X percent) and it'll work it out for you month by month.