Kemi Badenoch appeared to criticise statutory maternity pay as she said the Government was doing “too much”.
Maternity pay is “excessive” and people should exercise “more personal responsibility”, a Tory leadership contender has said. In an interview with Times Radio,
“The exact amount of maternity pay, in my view, is neither here nor there. We need to make sure that we are creating an environment where people can work and people can have more freedom to make their individual decisions.” First introduced in 1987, statutory maternity pay is available only to women who are employed and earning an average of at least £123 per week. It provides 90 per cent of a person’s salary for six weeks, and then whichever is lower of 90 per cent of their salary or £184.03 per week for the next 33 weeks, and the payment is liable for income tax and national insurance.
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