SwanLake
26-02-2014, 04:36 PM
Hi All
I'm hoping someone will have the answer and can clear something up for me. If you are self employed and claim maternity allowance, after your 10 keeping in touch days, if you choose to go back to work before the 39 week period is up you lose all of your maternity allowance (or thats certainly how I believe it to be).
Just today I got talking to another minder who said that her assistant has just come back off maternity leave (registered as self employed) and she was apparently allowed to work 10 hours a week without losing any of her maternity allowance as the HMRC allows this to ensure the business can continue? I was advised to check on the HMRC website but I cannot see this stated anywhere.
This doesn't seem right to me and I can't find it anywhere to validate this.
Would be good to find out as I am in discussions about when I will go back to work and this could potentially influence my decision.
Thanks all
SwanLake xx
I'm hoping someone will have the answer and can clear something up for me. If you are self employed and claim maternity allowance, after your 10 keeping in touch days, if you choose to go back to work before the 39 week period is up you lose all of your maternity allowance (or thats certainly how I believe it to be).
Just today I got talking to another minder who said that her assistant has just come back off maternity leave (registered as self employed) and she was apparently allowed to work 10 hours a week without losing any of her maternity allowance as the HMRC allows this to ensure the business can continue? I was advised to check on the HMRC website but I cannot see this stated anywhere.
This doesn't seem right to me and I can't find it anywhere to validate this.
Would be good to find out as I am in discussions about when I will go back to work and this could potentially influence my decision.
Thanks all
SwanLake xx