People On Maternity Leave and receiving Maternity Allowance

Question

How long did it take until you receieved any maternity allowance after sending your application?

Thanks!

Answer 1

back in 2005 it took 7 weeks for mine to come through, but that was then.xx

Answer 2

I had it when I was expecting my son in 2006.  I think the earliest you can receive it is from 29 weeks of pregnancy.   I submitted the form at about 21 weeks (if I remember rightly) and got it straight away from 29 weeks.

Answer 3

hi!

i have been on maternity leave from work since 13th june, i am still waiting to have my maternity allownance claim sorted, it has only just been put on the computer apparently!

i am due our baby in 12 days and still have no money i have been told by the maternity allowance people it wll be another 5 wks if not more as they are just getting to peoples claims from MAY!!!!

its ridiculous, will have a nice lump sum backdated but really would have rather had the money each wk.

Answer 4

A few weeks, but they will pay you from the first week in which you ask them to start the payments. They do somewhere on the application ask when you would like to start receiving the money, how often etc. You will need to state when you want it to start as it only lasts 9 months. So the earlier you start having it the earlier after the baby the money will stop. That was the mistake i made taking it to quickly and having 3 months of maternity leave without any money :(

Answer 5

With our last one it took 8 weeks to come through but they do back date it so we ended up with a lump sum as the first payment which was quite nice!

I hope that it won't take that long this time though :)

Answer 6

Im really curious what is maternity allowance!!!?