Maternity allowence

[lee69]

hiya I have posted this on another thread but it was an old thread thought I do another just to see if anyone can shine some light my way
hiya not sure if anyone can give me advice as this thread seems old??
I have 3 jobs,

1. I work 1 and a half hours for the local council (lunch assistant at a school, been there since jan, and get paid a lousy £30pw.

2.2nd job I work 1 and half hours (cleaner)and get paid £100 pw, and been there since April 19th.

1. and lastly I work local supermarket 16hrs per week and get £5.90 per hr, and I have only just started 10th may.

Now for the do I qualify for any type of maternity allowence due date 8th Jan 2011. I have tried to work it out but it is rather confusing my I am going to be giving up job no 1 after the end of the summer term aug 18 2010

See here.

You need to have been working for 26 weeks in total in the period of 66 weeks before your due date, which as long as you stay employed you will have done. And you need to be earning an average of £30 a week, which you do. So yes it sounds as though you will get it.

Would it mean that I would have to keep job no 1 on until 15weeks before my due date??

No, as long as you have worked for 26 weeks you will be fine. As you started job 1 in January, you could stop it in July/August and still be fine, so if you stop it as planned in August, that will be ok.

Thanks sending you a huge big hug...
baby no4 and Im 40 you'd think I would have more sense x