Maternity Mat B1

Guidance for healthcare professionals who issue form mat b1 to verify a pregnancy and confirm the expected week of confinement.

Maternity mat b1.

Maternity certificate your doctor or midwife will give you a copy of the mat b1 form after you have been pregnant for 21 weeks. A mat b1 form also known as the maternity certificate is a form from the government providing medical evidence of pregnancy and the baby s due date. It is filled in by the pregnant woman s doctor or midwife and issued to her after 20 weeks of pregnancy. If you are self employed or you don t work you will also need this certificate to claim for your 39 week maternity allowance from the government.

You must give them at least 28 days notice in writing if they ask for. Updated the english versions of the maternity allowance claim form with new test period tables covering 2018 to 2019. You ll need a matb1 form regardless of whether you ll be claiming statutory maternity pay smp from your employer or maternity allowance ma from jobcentre plus. You ll need a mat b1 form in order to claim for maternity pay and benefits whether you re unemployed self employed full time or part time.

Statutory maternity pay smp tell your employer you want to stop work to have a baby and the day you want your smp to start. The form allows you to claim for statutory maternity pay smp from your employer. Sure start maternity grant the sure start maternity grant ssmg is available to help low income. The maternity certificate mat b1 enables a pregnant woman to claim.

Also known as the maternity certificate the matb1 is the key piece of paperwork you ll need when working out your maternity leave arrangements. They cannot give this to you any earlier. Maternity certificate mat b1. The expected week of the birth to confirm this you can ask for a medical certificate such as a mat b1 form if they re more than 20 weeks pregnant the date they want to start maternity leave the earliest it can start is 11 weeks before the due date they must tell you this information no later than 15 weeks before the due date.

Replaced all 3 versions with march 2016 editions.