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Watch our caseworkers' top tips to make sure your applications are complete and correct. Avoid more than 20 common requisition points.

• Updated: 22 January 2024

Your Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - what you get, how to claim, maternity rights and extra help

• Overview

  When you take time off to have a baby you might be eligible for: Statutory…

• Leave

  Statutory Maternity Leave is 52 weeks. It’s made up of: Ordinary Maternity…

• Pay

  Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid for up to 39 weeks. You get: 90% of…

• Eligibility

  Statutory Maternity Leave You qualify for Statutory Maternity Leave if:…

• How to claim

  Statutory Maternity Leave At least 15 weeks before your due date, tell…

• Extra help

  Maternity benefits Use a benefits calculator to see what help you can get…

A guide for businesses and organisations that need to understand more about what sanctions are and how they work.

• Updated: 30 March 2026

Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.

• Updated: 31 March 2025

• Updated: 10 November 2022

This guide aims to improve the way functional work is done across government, by making it easier for people to comply with functional standards.

• Updated: 30 September 2024

• Updated: 4 April 2025

Tips at work do not count towards the National Minimum Wage - tips and tax, what your employer has to do, advice and help, cash in hand payments

Taking the approved driving instructor (ADI) part 2 test - what you need to bring and what happens during the test.

Income Tax is a tax you pay on your earnings - find out about what it is, how you pay and how to check you're paying the right amount using HMRC's tax calculator.