Smp & work

[Hollie089]

Hi, I started maternity leave in January and had baby in February, I'm receiving SMP only from my employer. I worked for an agency (employed/paid by an umbrella company) from November to end of April 2015, never resigned, never had a p45 and as such they have just send me a P60 for 2015/16. So my question is this, as I was employed albeit not actually working in the 15th week before my due date am I still able to do some work with this agency aslong as I continue to be paid via the same umbrella company without it affecting SMP. I realise this is an unusual circumstance! Any advice would be much appreciated. X

I'm not sure I understand, but if you are claiming SMP through your employer, you can only do 10 KIT days

Unless you are self employed. I think you can then do other work.

I thought your ml and therefore Smp stopped if you did more than kit days.

www.workingfamilies.org.uk/articles/what-work-can-you-do-during-maternity-leave-2/ - says you can work on a self employed basis without affecting maternity pay

But you probably be counted as employed rather than self employed so can just do the 10 KIT days

This is what it says on the .gov guidelines, I'm just unsure whether it counts as 'employed' if I didn't actually undertake a shift in the qualifying week.