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Maternity benefits and rights
These pages tell you about your rights at work and rights to benefits as you go through your pregnancy. Don’t forget - your rights at work may be better, but not worse, than the legal minimum described here.- Statutory maternity pay
- Maternity allowance
- Statutory paternity pay (SPP)
- Statutory adoption pay (SAP)
- Incapacity benefit during pregnancy
- Child tax credit
- Income support
- Jobseeker's allowance
- Healthy start vouchers
- Sure start maternity grant
- Child benefit
- Housing and council tax benefit
- Working tax credit
- Health benefits
- Child trust fund
- Challenging decisions
- Rights at work
- Further help and advice
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