What Can You Claim When Having a Baby

There are lots of benefits and entitlements available when y'all're meaning or take a baby. Y'all also qualify for benefits if you're pregnant and unemployed or on a depression income.

What benefits can I claim when I'one thousand meaning?

Gratuitous prescriptions and NHS dental treatment

What is it?

• Complimentary NHS dental care in the UK while you're pregnant and for a year afterwards the babe is built-in.
• In England, you qualify for gratis prescriptions while y'all're pregnant and for a year after the babe is built-in.
• In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, you qualify for costless prescriptions at all times (whether or not you're meaning).

Who gets it?

All women who are significant or who gave birth less than a year ago.

How to claim

Fill out the Maternity Exemption form (FW8) – available from your doctor or midwife.

What benefits can I merits if I'thou working and having a baby?

Paid time off for antenatal care

What is it?

Regardless of how long you've been in your job, you have a correct to paid time off from work to get to your antenatal appointments.

This time off is likewise as your annual exit.

Antenatal care includes:

• medical and midwife appointments
• doctor-recommended appointments – for example, relaxation or parenting classes.

Your time off should include travel time to and from each appointment.

The baby'due south father or your partner (this includes aforementioned-sex partners) are entitled to take unpaid fourth dimension off work to go with yous to two of your antenatal appointments. The maximum fourth dimension is capped at six hours and thirty minutes for each engagement.

Who gets it?

How to merits

Tell your employer when your antenatal appointments are happening. Effort to requite them as much discover every bit you can to assist with work planning.

It might be a expert idea to become during quiet times at work, or outside working hours if you tin can.

Detect out more nearly paid time off for antenatal intendance:

• In England, Wales and Scotland, on the GOV.United kingdom website
• In Northern Republic of ireland, on the nidirect website

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Statutory Motherhood Leave and Pay

What is Statutory Motherhood Leave and Pay?

When y'all have a baby, you're entitled to a year'southward motherhood go out and pay from your employer for up to 39 weeks while you're on leave, if you're eligible.

Who gets it?

Employed pregnant women.

To get Statutory Maternity Pay you must have:

• average earnings of at least £120 per week, and
• been working for your employer for at to the lowest degree 26 weeks.

How much is Statutory Maternity Pay?

You lot get Statutory Maternity Pay for 39 weeks of your 52-week motherhood exit.

The tabular array beneath shows how much Statutory Maternity Pay is in the 2021/22 tax year:

90% of your average weekly earnings before tax

£151.97 or 90% of your boilerplate weekly earnings - whichever is less

The next 13 weeks (if taken)

How to claim

To go maternity leave, you need to tell your employer when y'all want to terminate working by the 15th week before the infant's due date.

You lot need to give your employer at least 28 days' notice that you want to start Statutory Maternity Pay and give them proof yous're pregnant.

Maternity Assart

What is Maternity Assart?

A fortnightly or monthly payment from the government if you tin't claim Statutory Maternity Pay.

Who gets it?

Pregnant women and new mums who tin can't claim Statutory Maternity Pay because:

• y'all haven't worked for your employer for long plenty
• y'all're self-employed
• your average pay is less than £120 per calendar week.

How much is Maternity Assart?

The corporeality you lot get is based on how much y'all earn.

Depending on your earnings, in the 2021/22 tax twelvemonth you could get either:

• £151.97 a week or 90% of your average weekly earnings – whichever is less – for up to 39 weeks
• £27 a week for up to 14 weeks.

How to claim

If you live in England, Wales or Scotland, call 0800 055 6688 or make full in the Maternity Allowance (MA1) merits form on the GOV.UK website

If yous alive in Northern Republic of ireland, telephone call 02890 823 318 for a form or download 1 from the nidirect website

Statutory Paternity Leave and Pay

What is Statutory Paternity Leave and Pay?

One or two weeks' paid fourth dimension off work and then you can help look later on your new baby.

Who gets it?

You must be:

• the kid's biological father or adopter
• the mother'southward partner
• the intended parent – if you're having a infant through surrogacy.

Y'all must too:

• take worked for your employer for 26 weeks by the 15th week before the baby is due
• be employed by your employer until the baby is born
• earn at least £120 a week.

There are different rules if you prefer:

• If you live in England, Ireland or Scotland, find out more than on the GOV.Britain website
• If you live in Northern Ireland, discover out more at nidirect

How much is Statutory Paternity Pay

You get Statutory Paternity Pay for one or ii weeks of your paternity leave.

In the 2021/22 revenue enhancement year, y'all'll get £151.97 a week or 90% of your boilerplate weekly earnings – whichever is lower.

How to merits

Give your employer form SC3 at least 15 weeks before the week the baby is due:

• If yous live in England, Wales or Scotland, become the course SC3 on the GOV.UK website
• If you lot live in Northern Ireland, download the class SC3 from nidirect

In that location are different rules if yous adopt:

• If yous live in England, Republic of ireland or Scotland, find out more on the GOV.UK website
• If you live in Northern Ireland, find out more on NI Direct

Shared Parental Exit and Pay

What is Shared Parental Leave and Pay?

Up to 50 weeks' parental leave and 37 weeks' pay shared with your partner, if you're eligible.

Who gets it?

You tin can get Statutory Shared Parental Pay if y'all're employed and yous're eligible for either:

• Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay
• Statutory Paternity Pay and your partner is eligible for Statutory Motherhood Pay, Motherhood Allowance or Statutory Adoption Pay.

Before either parent tin get Shared Parental Leave or Pay the mother (or the person getting adoption get out) must either:

• return to piece of work, which ends any maternity or adoption leave, or
• give their employer 'binding notice' of the date when they plan to end their leave (you cannot normally alter the date you give in binding notice).

How much is Statutory Shared Parental Pay?

In the 2021/22 tax year, yous'll become £151.97 per week or 90% of your average weekly earnings – whichever is lower.

How to claim

You must give notice to your employer in writing if you want Statutory Shared Parental Get out and Pay.

If you live in England, Wales or Scotland, there are downloadable forms you can apply to give notice on the GOV.UK website

If you live in Northern Ireland, become to nidirect

Find out more about Statutory Shared Parental Leave and Pay on the GOV.Britain website

Statutory Adoption Leave and Pay

What is Statutory Adoption Go out and Pay?

When you adopt or have a child through surrogacy, you're entitled to a year off work and upwardly to 39 weeks' Statutory Adoption Pay.

Who gets it?

Only one person in a couple can take adoption leave and pay. The other person could exist eligible for paternity leave and pay.

You lot must be an employee and accept been:

• working for your employer for 26 weeks past the fourth dimension you're matched with a kid, or by the 15th calendar week before the baby is due
• earning an average of at to the lowest degree £120 a calendar week.

How much is Statutory Adoption Pay?

Y'all get Statutory Adoption Pay for upwardly to 39 weeks of your Statutory Adoption Leave.

The table below shows how much Statutory Adoption Pay is in the 2021/22 tax year:

90% of your average weekly earnings before tax

£151.97 or 90% of your average weekly earnings - whichever is less

The next 13 weeks (if taken)

How to claim

Tell your employer you want to have adoption go out and when you want information technology to showtime.

You lot should tell them inside seven days of being told past the adoption agency yous've been matched with a child.

If y'all utilise a surrogate to take a babe, tell your employer the due date and when you want to first your leave at to the lowest degree 15 weeks earlier the baby is due.

Working Tax Credit

Working Tax Credit is a payment from the authorities to help acme upward your earnings if you work and are on a low income. It'south beingness replaced by Universal Credit.

If y'all're making a new claim yous now have to apply for Universal Credit instead of Working Revenue enhancement Credit.

If you're already claiming Working Tax Credit and are having a baby, this might qualify as a change in circumstances. You'll take to tell HMRC near this change – and you lot might exist asked to make a new claim for Universal Credit.

What benefits can I claim if I'm non working or on a low income?

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is being replaced by Universal Credit. This means you have to claim Universal Credit instead.

But if you've made plenty National Insurance contributions, you might qualify for New Style Employment and Support Allowance. If you need extra support with other costs – for example, your hire or bringing up children, yous might exist able to claim Universal Credit aslope New Style ESA.

Income Support

Yous now have to make a new claim for Universal Credit instead of Income Support.

If you don't qualify for Maternity Allowance or Statutory Maternity Pay, are unemployed and can't look for work, or on a low income, you might exist able to claim Universal Credit while you're significant.

Use the benefits calculator from Turn2us to see what you might qualify for.

Sure Start Maternity Grant

What is the Sure Start Maternity Grant?

A ane-off £500 payment from the Social Fund to assist with the toll of your babe.

If y'all live in Scotland, this has been replaced with the Best Kickoff Grant (see beneath).

Who gets the Sure Start Maternity Grant?

You'll become the grant if your new babe is the but child under 16 in your family and yous or your partner get one of the following benefits:

• Pension Credit
• Income Support
• Universal Credit
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Back up Allowance
• Child Tax Credit at a higher rate than the family element
• Working Tax Credit which includes a disability or severe disability element.

There are more than rules if you're adopting or becoming a surrogate parent.

Observe out more on the GOV.United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland website

How to claim?

If you live in England or Wales, fill in the Sure Start Maternity Grant (SF100) claim form on the GOV.UK website

If you live in Northern Ireland, you can download a claim pack from the nidirect website

Discover out more about the Sure Commencement Maternity Grant on the GOV.UK website

Best Showtime Grant and Best First Foods (Scotland only)

Best Start Grant and Best Beginning Foods provide lower-income families with financial support during the key early years of a child's life

Who gets it?

If you're under 18, you can employ for Best Start Grant or Best Start Foods – even if you're not receiving any payments or benefits.

If yous're over 18, you tin can apply if y'all're getting any of the following benefits:

• Universal Credit
• Income Back up
• income-based Jobseeker'southward Allowance
• income-related Employment and Support Assart
• Pension Credit
• Housing Benefit
• Child Tax Credit
• Working Tax Credit.

Yous tin't become a Best Start Grant or All-time Commencement Foods if yous only get Child Benefit.

Income limits likewise apply if you want to merits Best Start Foods.

Discover out more than almost the Best Commencement Grant, All-time Start Foods and income limits on the mygov.scot website

How much is the All-time Start Grant?

The Pregnancy and Infant Payment chemical element is:

• £600 for a first baby and £300 for a new baby if you have older children living with you
• £300 for whatsoever subsequent children
• The Early on Learning Payment will be £250 per kid

The School Age Payment volition be £250 per child.

(2021/22 figures)

What is All-time Start Foods?

Best Kickoff Foods is a prepaid card to buy healthy foods for children under three. It can exist used online or in shops. You will get:

• £17 every four weeks during pregnancy
• £34 every four weeks from when your kid is built-in until they're ane twelvemonth old
• £17 every four weeks between the ages of ane and three.

(2021/22 figures)

How to claim

You tin utilise for Best Offset Grant and Best Start Foods online, by phone or past filling out the paper grade.

To detect out more nigh applying for Best Kickoff Grant and Foods on the mygov.scot website

Salubrious Start Schemes (in England, Wales and Northern Republic of ireland)

The NHS Salubrious Get-go scheme pays eligible families with immature children (or expecting a child) up to £viii.50 a calendar week to help pay for 'healthy' foods such as fruit, vegetables and milk. Y'all too get free vitamin supplements.

On 10 March the Good for you Start schemeOpens in a new window changed from using paper vouchers to a contactless Mastercard prepaid card. If you're already receiving paper vouchers you will need to employ online for your card. Vouchers can be used until their printed expiry date.

What can the Good for you Start payments exist used for?

The weekly payment on your prepaid card can exist used towards:

• milk – plain cow's milk, whole, semi-skimmed or skimmed pasteurised, sterilised, long-life or ultra-heat treated (UHT)
• plain fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables
• infant formula
• vitamins – pregnant women, women with a child under 12 months and children aged up to 4 years who are receiving Good for you Start payments are entitled to free Good for you Start vitamins – one bottle every eight weeks.

Y'all tin can only apply the cards in shops (non online) that sell milk, baby formula, fruit, and vegetables and you tin't withdraw cash from the card.

Who is eligible for the payments?

Yous'll get the payments if you're at least ten weeks meaning or have a kid under four and you and your family get 1 of the following benefits:

• Income Back up
• Income-based Jobseeker'south Allowance
• Income-related Employment Support Allowance
• Child Taxation Credit – if your family's income is £16,190 or less and you're not getting Working Tax Credit
• Working Tax Credit – if you're receiving Working Tax Credit run-on. A run-on might be paid to you lot in the four weeks after you lot've stopped working enough hours to qualify for Working Revenue enhancement Credit
• Universal Credit – if your household is earning £408 or less a calendar month
• Working Tax Credit run-on. This is the payment you receive for four weeks after you've stopped working for 16 hours or more each week (unmarried adults)
• Pension Credit (which includes the Child addition).

Y'all as well qualify for Healthy Offset Nutrient payments if y'all're not getting one of these benefits yourself but you live with your partner and they get the do good.

If you're under 18 and meaning, you lot can too go Healthy Start payments – even if you lot don't become any of the benefits listed above.

If y'all're not a British citizen but your child is, you might notwithstanding be able to get Healthy Get-go payments. Observe out more by scrolling to the bottom of this page on the NHS Healthy StartOpens in a new window website.

How much are Healthy Start food payments?

• pregnant women (from the 10th week) and children aged 1 to iv get £4.25 a week
• children under 1 get £8.50 a week.

(2021/22 figures)

How to merits

Yous will need to utilise for your Good for you Start bill of fare online from the NHS Healthy StartOpens in a new window website. You must register for a bill of fare even if y'all previously claimed newspaper vouchers.

If you need more information you can too speak to your midwife, health visitor or medico, or call Healthy Start on 0300 330 7010 or check out the NHS Salubrious Kickoff websiteOpens in a new window.

Aid with school send

You might be able to get help with the costs of your child'due south school transport. This depends on how far you live from the school, the historic period of the child and whatever disabilities.

You might be able to become extra back up if y'all're on a low income or challenge benefits.

If yous alive in England or Wales, you can check your eligibility on your local council'southward website. Find your local quango on the GOV.United kingdom website

If you lot alive in Northern Ireland, visit the Education Authority website

If you live in Scotland, go to the mygov.scot website

Scottish Child Payment

If you live in Scotland, you or your partner are claiming certain benefits, and you lot or your partner are the main person looking afterwards a child aged under six then you might be eligible to claim a £ten weekly payment for every child nether six.

If yous are successful, you will be paid every four weeks.

What benefits tin I merits when I've had a baby?

Child Do good

What is Child Benefit?

Child Do good is a regular payment of money from the government to help with the cost of raising a kid.

Just 1 person tin claim Child Benefit – and you lot can claim for every kid you're responsible for.

Who gets it?

Anyone responsible for a child under xvi (or nether xx if they're in pedagogy or grooming).

How much is Child Benefit?

The rates for the 2021/22 tax year are:

• £21.fifteen a week for the eldest or but child
• £14.00 a week for each boosted kid.

How to claim

If either of yous earns over £l,000 a yr

If either you or your partner has an income of more than £50,000 a year, you'll have to pay back some or all your Kid Benefit in the grade of extra Income Revenue enhancement. Only it could still be worth applying to assistance protect your land pension.

Child Taxation Credit

Child Tax Credit has been replaced by Universal Credit for all new claims. You may be able to claim the child element of UC for up to ii children until they achieve the age of xix (or xx in some cases) and are in full-time approved teaching or training – non at university.

If you're already getting Kid Taxation Credit, yous'll need to tell HMRC when the baby's born and you lot might exist asked to claim Universal Credit instead.

If you have iii or more than children, you lot can claim for all of them if they were born before half-dozen April 2017.

You usually won't be able to claim Universal Credit for tertiary or subsequent babies, except in limited circumstances, including a multiple birth, adopting or becoming a kinship carer.

What benefits tin I claim if I'm studying?

Have you had a baby and are at higher or university? And so you could qualify for fiscal assist. This could cover everything from living expenses and learning costs to travel and childcare grants.

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