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Statutory Maternity Pay: table of dates for employee entitlement

Use these tables to check your employee started with you in time to qualify for maternity pay.

From:
HM Revenue & Customs
Published
28 March 2014
Last updated
276 FebruaryApril 20252026 — See all updates

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Use these tables, if you are calculating manually, to check the latest start dates for employment for Statutory Maternity Pay.

You can also use the maternity and paternity pay calculator.

Updates to this page

Published 28 March 2014

Last updated 276 FebruaryApril 20252026 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates

    3. The Statutory Maternity Pay tables for 2025 have been added. Tables for 2023 have been removed.

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Update history

2026-04-06 00:15
The Statutory Maternity Pay tables for 2026 have been added.

2025-02-27 12:25
The Statutory Maternity Pay tables for 2025 have been added. Tables for 2023 have been removed.

2024-04-06 00:15
The Statutory Maternity Pay tables for 2024 have been added. Tables for 2020, 2021 and 2022 have been removed.

2023-03-29 12:54
The Statutory Maternity Pay tables for 2023 have been added. Tables for 2019 have been removed.

2022-02-17 16:45
The Statutory Maternity Pay tables for 2022 have been added. Tables for 2018 have been removed.