Maternity Allowance is an advantage paid to a pregnant lady who doesn’t fit the bill for Statutory Maternity Pay. On the off chance that a lady is independently employed, or a representative with an association yet hasn’t been working for a business since quite a while or the normal pay is not exactly and £ 112.00 per week, she won’t probably guarantee Statutory Maternity pay, notwithstanding, she might be qualified for another advantage called Maternity Allowance. A lady can guarantee Maternity Allowance when she has been expecting for 26 weeks and the payments for the recompense can begin 11 weeks before the infant is expected.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR A MATERNITY ALLOWANCE?
An expecting lady can either utilize a maternity qualification number cruncher to check the qualification or counsel a bookkeeping firm, for example, DNS Accountants to look for direction in regards to the remittance. Maternity Allowance is paid each 2 or a month. A lady can either get:
For 39 weeks, £ 139.58 a week or 90.00% of the average weekly earnings (whichever is less)
- 27.00 a week for 39 weeks
- 27.00 a week for 14 weeks
- For a self-employed individual
For an independently employed lady, to have the option to get everything of Maternity Allowance, she more likely than not paid Class 2 National Insurance (NI) for at least 13 weeks out of the 26 weeks before the infant is expected. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will guarantee if the adequate sum has been paid while making the case and if there is any distinction they will keep in touch with the concerned individual. On the off chance that an individual hasn’t paid enough Class 2 NI to get the full rate (£ 139.58 every week), she will get £ 27.00 per week for 39 weeks (an individual will, in any case, need to meet all the extra qualification criteria to get this sum). In any case, an early payment of NI can make an individual qualified for the full rate and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will send a letter to educate how this should be possible.
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