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Rights and benefits
In this box, write in the date of the
Sunday before the first day of your last
period. (If your last period started on a
Sunday, write in that date.) Then work
along the top row filling in the dates of
each successive Sunday.
THE TIMING OF YOUR RIGHTS AND BENEFITS IN PREGNANCY IS VERY
COMPLICATED, SO USE THIS CHART AS A ROUGH GUIDE ONLY.
Write in the first day of your last period here.
Then work along the row filling in the remaining boxes.
Each box represents a week. Write in the dates week by
week until you get to the date your baby is due.
In Northern Ireland if you are an owner occupier,
Housing Benefit will be paid in the form of a rate rebate
administered by the Rate Collection Agency.
How much is it?
It depends on the rent you pay, average rents in your area,
the size of your home, your income, savings, other
benefits, your age and your family size. It may not be the
same amount as the rent you are actually paying. You
cannot get Housing Benefit if you have savings of more
than £16,000, and the amount you get is reduced if you
have savings of more than £3,000.
How do I claim?
If you’re getting income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance or
Income Support you will get a Housing Benefit claim
pack with your Jobseeker’s Allowance/Income Support
claim form. Otherwise, get a form from your local
council. In Northern Ireland if you are a tenant, get claim
form HB1 from your Housing Executive district office,
or if you are an owner occupier get claim form F1 from
the Rate Collection Agency (RCA), Londonderry
House, 21–27 Chichester Street, Belfast BT1 4JJ, Tel: 028
9025 2525, or your local RCA.
HELP WITH MORTGAGE INTEREST
REPAYMENTS
Who gets it?
If you’ve got a mortgage and you’re on income-based
Jobseeker’s Allowance or Income Support, you may be
able to get help with your interest payments, although
there is usually a waiting period during which you won’t
get any help.
How much is it?
You can only get help with interest payments (not
repayments of capital or contributions to a linked PEP,
endowment or insurance policy) and the amount is
HAVE YOU CLAIMED EVERYTHING?
You can
claim
If you get
Child Benefit
Free
prescriptions
Free dental
treatment
£500 Sure
Start Maternity
Grant
Social
Fund loans
Council Tax
Benefit (not NI)
& Housing
Benefit
Help
with mortgage
Free milk
Free vitamins
Fares to
hospital
Incomebased
JSA
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Income
Support
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Low
income
✓
✓
✓
X
X
✓
X
X
X
✓
All
mothers
✓ ✓ ✓ X X X X X X X