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Maternity benefit and FIS

  • 19-02-2015 5:23pm
    #1
    Keogh08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭


    I am just off the phone with the FIS section and they tell me that the calculation for FIS whilst you are on maternity is purely based on your employment income prior to maternity leave and makes no allowances for being on a statutory maternity benefit with no top up from your employer.

    In 2012 I was on maternity leave and they calculated it by taking 26 weeks pay and 26 weeks maternity benefit and averaging the income, which I assumed was still the calculation method (I rang to see how to inform them on the application form that my employer did not top up my maternity benefit) The person I spoke to told me it was never calculated the way I mentioned above, I said that is how I had received it previously, he checked with a colleague who said that the calculation method changed about two years ago.

    Can anybody point me in some back up to this change as I cannot find anything on it.

    Seems that they have really screwed women on maternity benefit, with the amount of reductions, making the payment taxable and now this I personally find it crippling!


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