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Maternity Benefit

  • 13-11-2008 5:09pm
    #1
    IsThatSo?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 988 ✭✭✭


    Just sent away my application form, does anyone know what the processing time is these days? Last time I applied it was approx 9 weeks, am hoping things have improved but I doubt it :)


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  • #2
    mar09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭mar09


    hi I dnt really know for definate but was told it is around six weeks. I am going on maternity leave in march and have just found out my boss wont be paying me and panic has set in...i dnt know how i am going to survive on mat benefit... do you know can you apply for rent allowance when getting mat benefit??? i cud probably just about manage if i was.....


  • #3
    IsThatSo?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 988 ✭✭✭IsThatSo?


    Thank you for your reply :)

    I really don't know about the rent allowance. This is the link from the Citizens Information website:

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/supplementary-welfare-schemes/rent_supplement/?searchterm=rent%20allowance

    I didn't see maternity benefit mentioned, but I only scanned through it very quickly. Go to your local Citizens Advice Bureau and find out what you may be entitled to, they will have all the information you need :)

    Good luck for March :)


  • #4
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    It is taking ages at the moment.
    After a couple of weeks(2/3) you will get a letter confirming that they received your paper work and you will be informed if you are entitled to it in due course.
    It is the due course bit that people are panicking about at the moment though.


  • #5
    IsThatSo?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 988 ✭✭✭IsThatSo?


    Yep, due course is quite open ended :pac:

    Last time I started my maternity leave, got the payment when I was supposed to and about two weeks later got the letter confirming the amount I would be paid and the start date :rolleyes: I had sent it in in plenty of time too. I don't really mind a delay, it will come at some point which is the main thing. I just wanted an idea of what to expect this time around.

    I don't want to ring as I reckon the less people that ring them with stupid questions the more time they will have to get around to the outstanding applications!! Its 18 months or so since I last applied, I would have thought they could have gotten a few extra staff in to sort the backlong by now!!


  • #6
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    I sent in my application a couple of weeks ago and about a week after I sent it in I got a phone call asking for a photocopy of my passport as the name on my form didn't match my pps number.

    Long story short, I assumed it was moving pretty fast if they had already got to look at my application a week after I sent it!


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