Statutory Maternity Pay
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Statutory Maternity Pay is a UK government benefit that provides eligible employees with paid leave from work around the time of childbirth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Statutory Maternity Pay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5314469 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Statutory Maternity Pay Context triple: [Maternity Allowance, relatedTo, Statutory Maternity Pay]
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A.
Maternity Allowance
Maternity Allowance is a UK social security benefit that provides financial support to pregnant women and new mothers who do not qualify for statutory maternity pay, typically based on their recent work and National Insurance record.
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B.
Carer’s Allowance
Carer’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone with significant disability or health needs.
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C.
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Jobseeker’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.
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D.
Family Allowances Act 1945
The Family Allowances Act 1945 was a landmark UK social welfare law that introduced regular state payments to support families with children, helping to lay the foundations of the modern British welfare state.
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E.
Bereavement Support Payment
Bereavement Support Payment is a UK government benefit that provides financial support to eligible people whose spouse or civil partner has died.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Statutory Maternity Pay Target entity description: Statutory Maternity Pay is a UK government benefit that provides eligible employees with paid leave from work around the time of childbirth.
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A.
Maternity Allowance
Maternity Allowance is a UK social security benefit that provides financial support to pregnant women and new mothers who do not qualify for statutory maternity pay, typically based on their recent work and National Insurance record.
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B.
Carer’s Allowance
Carer’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone with significant disability or health needs.
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C.
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Jobseeker’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.
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D.
Family Allowances Act 1945
The Family Allowances Act 1945 was a landmark UK social welfare law that introduced regular state payments to support families with children, helping to lay the foundations of the modern British welfare state.
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E.
Bereavement Support Payment
Bereavement Support Payment is a UK government benefit that provides financial support to eligible people whose spouse or civil partner has died.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UK social security benefit
ⓘ
maternity benefit ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
HM Revenue and Customs
ⓘ
UK Government ⓘ
linked to:
UK government
|
| alternativeBenefit | Maternity Allowance ⓘ |
| appliesInJurisdiction |
England
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
employees
ⓘ
employees who have recently given birth ⓘ pregnant employees ⓘ |
| benefitType | cash benefit ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| durationStructure |
first 6 weeks at higher rate
ⓘ
remaining 33 weeks at standard rate or 90 percent of average weekly earnings if lower ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
employee must be on maternity leave
ⓘ
employee must earn at least the lower earnings limit for National Insurance contributions ⓘ employee must give proper notice to employer ⓘ employee must have been employed by the same employer for at least 26 weeks up to the qualifying week ⓘ employee must have reached the qualifying week of pregnancy ⓘ employee must provide medical evidence of pregnancy ⓘ |
| employerObligation |
employer must keep records of Statutory Maternity Pay payments
ⓘ
employer must pay Statutory Maternity Pay to eligible employees ⓘ |
| excludes | self-employed workers ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
UK National Insurance system
ⓘ
linked to:
National Insurance contributions
employers ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Employment Rights Act 1996
ⓘ
Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 ⓘ |
| legalRightOf | eligible employees in the UK ⓘ |
| legalSystem | UK employment law ⓘ |
| maximumDuration | 39 weeks ⓘ |
| paymentFrequency | weekly ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | paid by employer ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide income during maternity leave
ⓘ
support employees around the time of childbirth ⓘ |
| reclaimableBy | employers from HM Revenue and Customs ⓘ |
| reclaimRate |
small employers may reclaim 100 percent plus a small compensation
ⓘ
standard rate reclaimable is most of the Statutory Maternity Pay paid ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Shared Parental Pay
ⓘ
UK Statutory Paternity Pay ⓘ maternity leave ⓘ |
| requires | MATB1 maternity certificate ⓘ |
| startTimeCondition |
can start the day after childbirth if employee is still working
ⓘ
cannot start earlier than 11 weeks before expected week of childbirth ⓘ starts automatically if employee is off work for a pregnancy-related illness in the 4 weeks before the week the baby is due ⓘ |
| taxStatus |
subject to National Insurance contributions
ⓘ
subject to income tax ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Statutory Maternity Pay Description of subject: Statutory Maternity Pay is a UK government benefit that provides eligible employees with paid leave from work around the time of childbirth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.