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Working while on maternity benefit

  • 13-09-2018 6:24pm
    #1
    Richard Roma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭


    My wife, who is a Schedule E employee, gets three months maternity pay from her company. She is planning on taking a further six months unpaid maternity leave. She will receive State Maternity Benefit during that time.

    She is considering working some days, maybe once a fortnight, during months four to nine, if she can agree a good rate with her employer. Would she lose Maternity Benefit by doing so?

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Ghekko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Ghekko


    http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Can-I-work-while-getting-Maternity-Benefit.aspx

    Doesn't look like she can.


  • #3
    Wesser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    Are you allowed to start maternity benefit 3 months after giving birth?


  • #4
    Richard Roma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭Richard Roma


    Wesser wrote: »
    Are you allowed to start maternity benefit 3 months after giving birth?

    You get paid it in the first three months also. If your job provides maternity pay during that period they effectively give you the difference between your maternity benefit and your salary.


  • #5
    wiggle16
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    If you work while on maternity benefit, your entitlement to it is withdrawn, and if you were in receipt of maternity benefit while also working you would have to pay it back if/when SW found out about it. I don't think there's any way around it, maternity benefit exists so that you will not have to work and care for a newborn baby at the same time. If you are fit to work and can make other arrangements for childcare then there is no need for you to be on maternity benefit and on those grounds it would be withdrawn. So it's an either-or situation.


  • #6
    Toastytoes
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭Toastytoes


    Richard Roma wrote: »
    My wife, who is a Schedule E employee, gets three months maternity pay from her company. She is planning on taking a further six months unpaid maternity leave. She will receive State Maternity Benefit during that time.

    Thanks

    My understanding is the state maternity benefit is 26 weeks/6 months from start of maternity leave, not from months 3-9 of maternity leave. So no pay once 6 months are up.


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