paying back maternity pay due to finding a new job?

[umberella]

I do have this in a leaflet SOMEWHERE (in our enormous pile of garage stuff after moving house), but does anyone know roughly how much I should have to pay back to my employer ( a local authority) as I am not returning to work following the end of my maternity period?

I have had 6 weeks on 90% of my salary, 6 weeks on 50% and 6 months at the statutory rate.

fingers crossed that someone might come up trumps for me!

I think you have to pay back the occupational part of your maternity pay but not the statutory maternity pay.

does that mean the entire first three months pay i received, or the difference between that and the statutory amount?

I think it is just the difference that you have to pay back, have just quickly checked the DirectGov website and they say that different employers will have different policies but that you do not need to pay back any SMP that you recieve.

Hi there. You're entitled to keep your statutory maternity pay whatever you decide to do. This means that you'll probably be asked to pay back the difference between the SMP and anything extra that your company paid as part of an enhanced maternity package.

I would say though, that all companies are different, so it's probably best to give your Personnel department a call. You definitely won't have to pay back SMP though.

sorry have just realised that it could be the 1st 3 months that you have to pay back.

I've just returned to work and received full pay for 8 weeks, then went on to half pay with SMP and if I hadn't gone back to work, I would have had to have paid back the 8 weeks full and 8 weeks half pay, but not the smp I was paid at the same time.

Yikes. I am really hoping it's not the entire 12 weeks worth as we are on our knees having been on ML for 9 months!!

Thanks for your advice and I will call personnel and check. Fingers crossed they will let me pay it back in stages.

It's definitely only the extra you have to pay back, and then only if it explicitly says you have to in your companies maternity policies. So all you will have to pay back is the diffrence between SMP (currently £117.18 but may have been lower last tax year) and 50% for 6 weeks