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Advice to give pregnant women on infections that can be transmitted via contact with animals that are or have recently given birth.

• Updated: 18 January 2017

• Updated: 18 September 2024

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

If you have a health condition or disability, you’ll have an assessment to work out how much Universal Credit you can get and what you need to do in return.

Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal care or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy.

FCDO travel advice for USA. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 1 May 2026

FCDO travel advice for Venezuela. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 10 March 2026

FCDO travel advice for St Maarten. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 10 December 2025

Find out what support is available to help with the cost of living: income and disability benefits, bills and allowances, childcare, housing and travel.