MATERNITY IN NORTH - TAX CREDITS ETC

Does anyone know the ins and outs of this - I am getting my stautory mat at 108.85 per week but not sure what else i may be entitled to...,all help greatly appreciated - will defo miss the extra money!!

Hi, you will be entitled to child benefit of £18.10 per week once the baby is born and if you are going back to work more than 16 hours a week you can apply for working tax credit. I am not sure about ordinary child tax credit - I think both are assessed on your income. The government gives you £250 to start a child trust fund when it is born and the child gets it when they are 18.

[quote="Mrs Maternal":2elvrspx]Does anyone know the ins and outs of this - I am getting my stautory mat at 108.85 per week but not sure what else i may be entitled to...,all help greatly appreciated - will defo miss the extra money!![/quote:2elvrspx] Its actually £112.75 now - comes to £450 per month roughly. Don't know much about anything else myself, would be interested in finding out, or could someone even point us in the direction of a decent website to tell us?

Here is more info on the tax credits http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/ssa/benef ... credit.htm

And this one is about child tax credits which you can get even if you are not working: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAnd ... DG_4015478