Submitted by Glenn Byers on Wednesday 12th January 2022
Published on Tuesday 18th January 2022
Current status: Closed
Closed: Monday 18th July 2022
Signatures: 1,390
Introduce neonatal leave and pay entitlement immediately
The government has agreed to introduce neonatal leave and pay entitlement but not until April 2023, this is completely unacceptable & it needs implementing immediately.
Our baby was born in June 2021 at just 24 weeks gestation, he wasn't due until October, he was 16 weeks early.
We're now 30wks in hospital with many more months to come, 28 of these weeks was spent in NICU.
We are 7 months into 9 months statutory maternity pay & we have no idea how we will afford our bills once we lose this payment as 1 income doesn't cover them. My wife can't go back to work whilst our baby is still in hospital & has never been home. We can't claim disability or carers allowance as our baby has never left hospital since birth. We could lose everything after March due to this bill being delayed.
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