Maternity pay

[MrsBellefleur]

Just after some clarification please if anyone can, I'm on my 7th week of maternity.

My work gives me 6 weeks at full pay then 20 weeks of 3/10ths pay plus statutory maternity.

Got my wage slip for this month and I've been paid less than 4 weeks worth of stat maternity. I've been paid £473.10 in total. That's not right is it?

I'm panicking and waiting for payroll to ring me back after I demanded they recalculated but we're screwed as it's a lot less than we'd worked it out as being.

Just bumping this. Still not heard from payroll, I'm going to phone back at 2pm if they havent rung by then.

I think SMP is taxed which may explain the lower amount

I'm on maternity and just receive basic smp. That's around £140 per week. I receive more a month than you (around £520 ish I think once pension is taken off - Not enough pay for tax and ni).

I definitely think you should be receiving more than you have. If you'd like, let me know what your usual pay is and I'll roughly work it out for you.

What does your payslip say?

You may be being taxed due to the salary contribution you are receiving (depending on your salary, obviously).

I just get SMP and get more than that a month.

Thank you.

Here is a normal wage slip (the higher amount) and my wage slip for this month. It's got to be wrong surely?!

What date did your maternity leave start?

How many weeks maternity did your last payslip contain, and was that all correct?

These are the two wage slips in between wine

I assume my mat started on 20/03/2017 as dd was came slightly early, I wasn't due to start my mat leave until a week later than that. Dd is now 7 weeks old. I get 6 weeks full pay then 20 weeks at SMP plus 3/10ths of my normal pay.

I assume what I got paid was correct, it seemed so!

It does look wrong. I don't think you've quite been paid 6 weeks of the full pay. It looks to be not far off, but I think you may be a week/week and a half short. The £134 you received on your first part of maternity doesn't quite work out to be a week's maternity, it looks a little under a week.

I've worked out your gross if you were just to receive the 3/10ths plus the SMP. If your pay is calculated as 4 weekly (mine switches from monthly salary to either 4 or 5 weeks on SNP), I worked out your gross to be around £793. If it was monthly instead, the gross would be £860. If it was classed as a 5 week month (which happens on SMP - it balances out over the 39 weeks), the gross would be £992.45.

I hope that helps a little. Obviously there would be deductions from the gross pay.

Thanks wine this is what I was going off as my rough estimate of what I should expect.

Not sure if I worked it out correctly though!

That's roughly the same, give or take a little. I'm probably not seeing something here, but why is your gross pay less than your salary?

I worked weekly to be £198.49, so pretty close to yours. It definitely looks like they're wrong. Oh, and SMP has just gone up as well to £140.98, not that it would make much of a difference at all when working this out.

Is there a qualifying period for your occupational pay and would this be less than your current salary?

Don't know I might have the figures the wrong way round. I don't really understand it all to be honest which you can probably guess!

I've phoned payroll again and they're phoning me back within the hour, it's been passed on to the manager to look at which makes me think it's def wrong.

There's a random unison payment as well that's been taken when I'm not with them which made me wonder if they've mixed mine and someone else's up or taken bits from two of us to work it out wrongly. Not sure we will see what they say!

Thank you for looking at it wine

I've worked there ten years toast so no qualifying period.

It should have been pretty straight forward I would have thought! Obviously not though.

Hopefully if it is wrong they will transfer the difference into my account, we're on holiday next week!

No problem. I hope you get it sorted. They switched my maternity to a zero hour contract after about 5 weeks. It took 2 different people to work it out! At least next month's pay should be good for you!

Oh, and we're off on our hols next week too!! Enjoy!!

When I say qualifying period, I mean the amount they use to determine what is your full pay. For smp it's between weeks 27-35 of your pregnancy, I think. I was wondering if you might have earned less in that period for whatever reason.

Ah right toast, nope, same wage for the last three years, that's why I couldn't understand why it was so messed up!

it's finally sorted now after taking all day thankfully! Before deductions etc they owe me another £300 approx so will be getting that next week. Couldn't tell me what had happened but I'm just glad it's being fixed!

Thank you for all the help.

Glad it's sorted. That's not the kind of stress you want with a small baby.