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Increase for new baby on maternity benefit?

  • 19-11-2012 3:07pm
    #1
    Kaylami
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Does anyone know are you entitled to the Increase for qualified child for your new baby on maternity benefit?

    I am currently getting the standard rate of 188 for me and the rate for qualified child for my other little one, that little bit extra would go a long way.


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  • #2
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    The minimum payment on Maternity Benefit is €217.80, the max is €262 a week, dependent on your rate of pay in 2010.
    If you have dependants your rate of Maternity Benefit (excluding increases for dependants) is compared to the rate of Illness Benefit (including increases for dependants) that would be paid to you if you were absent from work through illness. The higher of the two rates is paid to you. Although the Illness Benefit rate begins from a lower personal base amount (€188 is the maximum Illness Benefit personal rate), it also takes into account extra payments for your family, and this is why, depending on the circumstances of your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant and how many children you have, the rate paid to you may be greater than the maximum Maternity Benefit rate of €262.
    http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Schemes/BirthChildrenAndFamilies/MaternityBenefit/Pages/mb.aspx


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