NHS Maternity Pay help

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Hi everyone,

I work full time for the NHS as a band 3 and qualify for the full maternity pay.
I have spoken to my payroll department and they are unable to help me with a breakdown of what I would receive if I split my payments over 9 months.

Would anyone be able to help?

I work 37.5 hours a week
My salary is £22,816 per year
My gross pay for each month is £1,901.33

Any help is much appreciated!!

I understand it’s full pay for 8 weeks then half pay plus SMP until 26 weeks (as I was part time basically worked out as full pay for 6 months) then just SMP week 27-39

If you can go on to your intranet. Find the maternity policy and this will tell you. Also email payroll they know this information and are happy to share it with you.

The mat policy will tell you what weeks count as your "qualifying weeks" that the mat pay is based off. So in those weeks try cram in a bit of overtime/weekends to make the most of the qualifying weeks. Obviously this is only possible if you feel up to it. I was sick during my qualifying weeks so my mat pay was based on that 🤦

@Teandbuns I know what the breakdown would consist of, I'm wanting to know the take home pay split over 9 months if anyone can help

maternity.money/calculator

This app you can covert it to NHS pay.

Stop starting new threads, it's not necessary.

Hard to say what your take home would be as depends what you were earning over the remaining 3 months of the tax year plus whether you pay into pension, student loans etc.
However assuming no enhancements during qualifying period and your pay as stated then should be (pre tax figures) full pay first 8 weeks then half pat £950pcm + £750 SMP till 6 months then final 3 months at £750 per month. You’re not eligible for anything after 39 weeks but some people choose to have their 39 weeks pay split over 12 months for their own budgeting purposes/less NI if they are taking the full year. You will still build up your annual leave during your maternity leave so people often tag that on the end and of course that’s at full pay.

Same here, really rubbish qualifying period (and quite discriminatory considering most likely to be ill at that time due to the pregnancy!!) would be much fairer if they calculated it over previous 12 months.