Help ! Maternity allowance - employee of own limited company

[amywhattodo]

Called HMRC to get more information about paying my class 2 national insurance as needed to ensure whether this needed to be topped up before applying for maternity allowance but have just been informed that I am classed as an employee of my own limited company .

Am I still eligible for maternity allowance and how is this even assessed? How do I ensure I get the maternity allowance?

Have been working in my own limited company for 1.5 years now but also now in a PAYE job which I just started 3 weeks ago.

would appreciate some advise

thank you

I am also an employee of my limited company, and my accountant is claiming my statutory maternity pay through HMRC.

I had a look into it myself and it seemed pretty straightforward to organise. Do you have an accountant or do you need to do it yourself?

By the time you are having your baby you should be able to use payslips from your PAYE job. You only need 13 weeks worth of payslips (choose the payslips where you earned the highest amount). Or do you pay yourself a higher amount in your self employed job?

Or do they mean you can claim SMP through your self employed job?

You would need to pay yourself maternity through your company. I get mat allowance coz I’m registered as a sole trader rather than a company. I get the £155 higher amount coz I always pay vol class 2s but don’t expect them to be on the ball with it. My youngest was 2 months old before I finally got mine backdated. Dunno how it’s works with paye, I’ve not been an employee for decades