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Qualifying for any maternity benefit

  • 19-08-2011 9:52pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all

    I just found out that I am pregnant (yipee!), and I was wondering about how I might qualify for maternity benefit. I looked up the website but found it all quite hard to understand so here goes my employment history. I was in full time employment for 6 years 2003-2009 and got let go and signed on for about 2 months and then signed off again as hubby got work in England so we moved. I have not worked since then but we are planning to go home to have the baby and build a life and I was wondering if I would qualify for any maternity benefit based on my 6 years of contributions, or do I have to have worked in Ireland during 2011 to qualify?

    Thanks all


Comments

  • #2
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    Congrats! Do you have a job to come to here in Ireland for which a PRSI contribution will be made on your behalf? if you do. and you will be in this job until the first day of your maternity leave, then i reckon you will qualify for Maternity Benefit. if you dont have a job to come to, then you wont:(.
    If either or both of you have jobs lined up here to return too, well and good, if you dont you should make extensive inquiries about your SW entitlements before you return, to establish how you will finance yourselves. can be quite tricky.;)


  • #3
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    mrsbyrne wrote: »
    Congrats! Do you have a job to come to here in Ireland for which a PRSI contribution will be made on your behalf? if you do. and you will be in this job until the first day of your maternity leave, then i reckon you will qualify for Maternity Benefit. if you dont have a job to come to, then you wont:(.
    If either or both of you have jobs lined up here to return too, well and good, if you dont you should make extensive inquiries about your SW entitlements before you return, to establish how you will finance yourselves. can be quite tricky.;)

    Thanks so much!!! We are very excited but scared about the finances. I am afraid we do not have work lined up for coming back. My hubby should be fine to get something to keep us tiding over as he is self employed and can pick up a few things in Ireland when he gets back, but me personally, well the only thing I could think of would be doing some temp work but I know that is harder and harder to get now.

    How long would I have to be working in the job and how many PRSI contributions need to be made to qualify? Like if I did 2 months for a temp agency would that count or be enough?


  • #4
    wmpdd3
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    I'm not sure but you have to be employed on the day you go out on maternity leave so even a part time contract in a supermarket would be better than temping. Your maternity leave is based on a percentage of you earnings.

    It would be well worth calling in to a citizens advice center just to get a better idea.


  • #5
    LegacyUser
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    I do not think I will be able to get maternity benefit from what I have been reading. Thank you for all your information. If a person has no job and their partners earnings are quite low do they receive no assistance at all?


  • #6
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    lumpy bumpykets wrote: »
    I do not think I will be able to get maternity benefit from what I have been reading. Thank you for all your information. If a person has no job and their partners earnings are quite low do they receive no assistance at all?
    its quite complicated. i think you should do some serious research before you burn your boats in the UK.there are no simple yes or no answers. sorry.


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