Well my maternety leave is ment to start this friday, even though I have stoped working already so I wont be going back to work till about Nov time!
Although the job centre people are rubbish. they sent me a letter to say that they have recieved my claim but its currently taking them 6 weeks to process MA claims, which is appaling, its onlt caue Igot that big payout from the child tax credit that Im managing, but I can imagine that causing a lot of problems for women who had been working full time, and have bills to pay, having to wait 6 weeks before getting their benefit sorted!