When will my Statutory Adoption Pay start?

If you are entitled to receive adoption pay, you can choose when it will start. You can choose that it starts on:

• the date the child is placed with you for adoption, or if you are at work on that day, the following day; or
• a pre-determined date that you have chosen and which falls no more than 14 days before the child’s placement with you is expected to take place, and which starts no later than the date that the child is placed with you.