how long does maternity grant take go in?

[surprisenumber3]

Surestart grant that is?

My friend posted hers a week ago and is just wondering when she can start the shopping!

there was a backlog over xmas i heard, and that they are running 6 weeks behind. it ususally takes 6 weeks, so that 12 weeks in total.
pain, esp as u cant claim till u've not got that long left, but hopefully she'll get it b4 baby comes. if not they dont need much for the first month

oh no, she'll be upset, she is relying on getting it in a couple of weeks I think!! She has to buy everything and her DH has just been put on short-time and she is 30 weeks

Will see her later, don't want to tell her now!

Thanks for the info though

I thought it was meant to be 2 weeks?

When i applied for mine with DS2 its took about 2 weeks, obviously there wasn't the xmas backlog but it deffo shouldnt take 6 weeks for them to sort it out, at least it shouldnt do anyway. If ur friend gives them a call they can tell you what date they are working to and should be able to gauge how long from there.

is it really 2 weeks? well took both of mine 6. maybe it was just london.

agree give them a call, they can let you know

Mine has never took more than 2 weeks to arrive in the bank.