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@Melina universal credit is a UK benefit?
So you have ‘entitlement periods’, it’s not just June, July, August etc. so your period is between 10th June- 11th of July, so any pay you got during that would count towards deductions. Your next entitlement period would be 11th July- 12th August. It can be crap sometimes but you have received the correct amount based on you MA during that period x
Just checking you know maternity allowance is deducted from UC pound for pound? X
You can request an advance on your next payment if you don’t think you have enough to last you
Maternity allowance is deducted and is based on what’s received during your assessment periods. You can only apply for an advance if one is available to you. This is repayable out of your UC each month.
@Amelia thank you for explaining that! I just wondered if this was normal but makes sense as they’re periods. New to claiming benefits and I honestly don’t understand it all haha. Thought they were having me on!
@Kel yes I’m aware, this was more about my UC claim not maternity allowance
@Adele I’m fully aware maternity allowance is deducted as they have been deducting it for the past 9 months however now my maternity pay is over I was curious as to why it was still being deducted.
@Becca I did see this too thank you x
Yeah so the reason it was less is it only was covering on the days between her last payment on the 11th. So from July 11-17th which is when you Maternity leave ends I’m assuming is what you had put in when filing for it, so those days are what you are paid for. After that that’s all you get for paid maternity/family leave. However that’s how it is in California.