WHAT IS FORM SF100 USED FOR?

Form SF100 is used to claim a sure start maternity grant of £500.

How can you qualify for this grant?

1. If you are pregnant with your first child OR if you are expecting more than one baby (twins triplets etc) and you already have children.
2. You or your partner are claiming certain benefits.
3. You can claim the maternity grant within 11 weeks of when your baby is due or within 6 months after the baby is born.
4. You can claim this maternity grant within 6 months of a child being placed with you if you have adopted this child.
5. You can claim this maternity grant within 6 months of a child under 12 months old being placed with you if you become responsible for them. 

Are there any reasons why you may not be able to get this grant?

Yes there are:

1. You may not be able to get this grant unless your baby is the only child in your family under 16 years of age.
2. You may not be able to get this grant if you care for a child under the age of 16 years in your household that is not your own.
3. You may not be able to get this grant if you have step children or your partner’s children aged 16 years and under living with you. 

ARE THERE ANY GOVERNMENT OR OUR OWN L.I.P HELP GUIDES OR WRITE UPS TO HELP YOU COMPLETE FORM SF100?

There is a government webpage called ‘sure start maternity grant’ that can help you. Please click on the link below.

LINK TO GOVERNMENT WEBPAGE FOR SURE START MATERNITY GRANT 

You can also call the sure start maternity grant helpline 0800 169 0140

For background information you can read our webpage for maternity grant

LINK TO OUR L.I.P HELP GUIDE FOR MATERNITY GRANT

WHAT IS THE FEE TO SEND FORM SF100 TO THE COURT AND HOW TO PAY FOR IT?

There is no application fee to send form SF100 to the department of work and pensions.

Form SF100 is free to send by post. There is a freepost address where you can send your completed form – FREEPOST DWP SSMG 

HOW TO COMPLETE FORM SF100 AND WHERE TO SEND IT

• NOTE 1 – You can complete form SF100 online, then print a hard copy and sign and date it. Alternatively you can download it, print it and then complete it by black pen and in capital letters. If there are any alterations by black pen you must cross them out and date and sign them. 
• NOTE 2 – If you find there is not enough space to complete your answers on your form Sf100 then please use additional sheets of paper to continue and attach them to your supplementary form. Please write your name, address, national insurance number, and question number on the top of your additional sheets of paper. 
• NOTE 3 – As stated above please send this form to the department of work and pensions to the freepost address provided.
• NOTE 4 – Please keep a copy of your form SF100 and any attachments for yourself outside of the ones you send to the family court.
• Form C13A is 17 pages long. 
• Parts 1 to 10 are about you.
• Part 1 on page 2 will ask you to write down your title (Mrs, Miss) in the box provided. 
• Part 2 on page 2 will ask you to write down your surname in the box provided.
• Part 3 on page 2 will ask you to write down your first name(s) in the box provided.
• Part 4 on page 2 will ask you to write down your date of birth in the box provided.
• Part 5 on page 2 will ask you to write down your address in the boxes provided.
• Part 6 on page 2 will ask you to write down your national insurance number in the box provided.
• Part 7 on page 2 will ask you to write down your contact telephone number in the box provided.
• Part 8 on page 2 will ask you to write down your email address in the box provided.
• Part 9 on page 2 will ask you if you have been granted refugee status or humanitarian protection status. You must tick the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘no’ box you can leave part 10 and go straight to part 11. You will also be asked the write the date that you arrived in the UK in the box provided
• Part 10 on page 2 will ask if the refugee or an individual granted humanitarian protection already had children under 16 years of age before arriving in the UK. You must tick the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box.
• Parts 11 to 21 are about your husband/partner 
• Part 11 on page 3 will ask you to write down your husband/partner’s title (Mr, Mrs, Miss) in the box provided. 
• Part 12 on page 3 will ask you to write down your husband/partner’s surname in the box provided. 
• Part 13 on page 3 will ask you to write down your husband/partner’s first name in the box provided. 
• Part 14 on page 3 will ask you to write down your husband/partner’s date of birth in the box provided. 
• Part 15 on page 3 will ask you to write down your husband/partner’s address in the box provided. 
• Part 16 on page 3 will ask you to write down your husband/partner’s national insurance number in the box provided. 
• Part 17 on page 3 will ask you to write down your husband/partner’s contact telephone number in the box provided. 
• Part 18 on page 3 will ask you to write down your husband/partner’s email address in the box provided. 
• Part 19 on page 3 will ask you if your husband/partner has been granted refugee status or humanitarian protection status. You must tick the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘no’ box you can leave part 19 and go straight to part 21. You will also be asked the write the date that they arrived in the UK in the box provided
• Part 20 on page 3 will ask if your husband or partner who has the refugee or humanitarian protection status already had children under 16 years of age before arriving in the UK. You must tick the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box.
• Part 21 on page 4 will ask whether you or your husband/partner are receiving any benefits. You must tick the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box. If you have applied for a benefit and not heard about the outcome you must tick the ‘yes’ box. There is a list of benefits to choose from however if your benefit is not on the list you must still give details of it in the box provided.
• Parts 22 to 25 are about your baby.
• Part 22 on page 4 is asking if your baby has already been born. You must either tick the ‘yes’ box or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘no’ box you can go to part 24. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you need to write the baby’s date of birth in the box provided.
• Part 23 on page 4 is asking you if more than 1 baby was born (twins or triplets). You must tick either the ‘yes; or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘yes’ box then you must write down how many children were born in the box provided and then you can go straight to part 26.  
• Part 24 on page 4 is asking you to write down that date your baby is expected to be born on the box provided. 
• If your baby was still born you can still apply but must send the babies birth or death certificate with your form SF100.
• Part 25 on page 5 asks you if more than 1 baby is expected to be born. You need to write down how many in the box provided.
• Parts 26 to 33 concerns you becoming responsible for a child under 12 months old.
• Part 26 on page 5 asks if you gave birth to this baby. You must tick either the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you can go straight to part 34.
• Part 27 on page 5 will ask you what date did the baby start living with you. You will need to write the date in the box provided.
• Part 28 on page 5 will ask if you are getting child benefit for this child. You must either tick the ‘yes’ box or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘no’ box you must attach an adoption certificate, parental or any certificate showing you are responsible for this child. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you must write the date you started child benefit for this child in the box provided.
• Part 29 on page 5 will ask if you are getting a benefit for the birth mother because she is under 20 years of age. If yes you must write her name in full in the box provided.
• Part 30 on page 5 will ask you if you or your husband/partner have been granted an adoption order or residence order for this child. You must either tick the ‘yes’ box or the ‘no’ box. If the answer is yes then you must write the date the court order was made in the box provided and for how many children.  You must attach copies of the orders with your form SF100.
• Part 31 on page 5 asks you if you or your husband/partner has been granted a parental order under section 30 of the human fertilisation and embryology act or section 54/54A of the human fertilisation and embryology act 2008. You can either tick the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you must write the date of the court order in the box provided and for how many children. You must attach copies of the court orders with your form SF100.
• Part 32 on page 6 will ask you if you or your husband/partner has had a child placed with yourselves for adoption. You can either tick the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you must write the date of the court order in the box provided and for how many children. You must attach copies of the court orders/adoption letter with your form SF100.
• Part 33 on page 6 will ask if you or your husband/partner have adopted a child from outside the UK. You can either tick the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you must write the date of the adoption in the box provided and for how many children. You must attach copies of the court orders/adoption letter with your form SF100.
• Parts 34 to 41 are about your other children under the age of 16 years that live with you.
• Part 34 on page 7 will ask you about any other children under 16 years of age you have living with you. You can either tick the ‘yes’ box or the ‘no’ box. If you tick the ‘no’ box you can go forward to part 42. 
• The next box on page 7 will ask you about CHILD 1 you have living with you. You will be asked to write down the child’s name, date of birth, is the child related to you and/or your husband/partner, and do you or your husband/partner get any benefits for child 1. You must detail these benefits in the box provided. You will not be asked if you or your husband/partner have refugee or humanitarian protection status then was child 1 born before you arrived in the UK. You must tick the box if this applies. 
• Part 35 on page 8 will ask the same questions for CHILD 2 as asked for CHILD 1.
• Part 36 on page 8 will ask the same questions for CHILD 3 as asked for CHILD 1.
• Part 37 on page 9 will ask the same questions for CHILD 4 as asked for CHILD 1
• If you need to give details of more children you can write about them in part 45 on page 13.
• Part 38 on page 9 will ask if you are a kinship carer for CHILD 1 mentioned in part 34 on page 7. If you tick the ‘no’ box then you can go forward to part 42. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you will be asked child 1’s name, details of their biological parents, address of the biological parents, whether child 1 is related to you or your husband/partner, age of child 1 when the kinship care started and the reasons why the biological parents could not look after child 1.
• Part 39 on page 10 will ask the same questions about kinship care for CHILD 2 mentioned in part 35 on page 8 as for CHILD 1 in part 38 on page 9.
• Part 40 on page 10 will ask the same questions about kinship care for CHILD 3 mentioned in part 36 on page 8 as for CHILD 1 in part 38 on page 9.
• Part 41 on page 11 will ask the same questions about kinship care for CHILD 4 mentioned in part 37 on page 9 as for CHILD 1 in part 38 on page 9.
• Parts 42 to 44 are about general information.
• Part 42 on page 12 will ask if ‘sure start maternity grant’ has been paid to you or someone else for the baby or babies you are claiming for. If you tick the ‘no’ box then you can go to part 43. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you will have to detail who it was paid to and the date it was paid. You cannot get a ‘sure start maternity grant’ if it has already been paid to you or someone else. You also cannot get a sure start maternity grant if you or someone has received a best start grant. You can get paid another sure start maternity grant under the following conditions: 
  1. You are the kinship carer.
  2. You are not the mother but have become responsible for the child.
  3. You have been granted an adoption order
  4. You have been granted a residence order
  5. You or your husband/partner have been granted a parental order under section 30 of the human fertilisation and embryology act 1990 or section 54/54A of the human fertilisation and embryology act 2008.
  6. You have been appointed a guardian 
  7. You have had a baby placed with you for adoption by an agency.
  8. You have adopted a baby from overseas.
• Part 43 on page 12 asks you if a best start Scottish grant has been paid to you or someone else for the baby/babies in question. If you tick the ‘no’ box you can go straight to part 44. If you tick the ‘yes’ box you must write down the name of the person it was paid to in the box provided.
• Part 44 on page 12 will ask if you or your husband/partner are already getting child benefit from this baby. You must tick either the ‘yes’ box or the ‘no’ box.
• Part 45 on page 13 is for any further information you need to provide or for details about other children.
• Parts 46 – 50 on page 14 will ask for your bank account details where you would like the money to be paid.
• Part 51 on page 15 will ask for the details of the person who has completed this form for someone else. 
• The next section on page 15 is the declaration which will ask for your signature and the date.
• On page 16 and 17 is a health professionals statement which must be completed by a doctor or midwife. Your doctor or midwife can complete this statement when you send your form SF100 to the department of work and pensions or at a later date. The department of work and pensions will contact you to ask for this if you do not send it in with your form.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND FORM SF100/DOWNLOAD THIS FORM?

Please click on the link below to access form SF100 from the government website. 

LINK TO GOVERNMENT WEBSITE FOR FORM SF100

WHEN WAS FORM SF100 FIRST PUBLISHED AND LAST UPDATED?

Form SF100 was first published by the government (Department of work and pensions) on 01-10-2013 and it was last updated on 28-09-2022