Still waiting ... they told me they allow 21 days after recieving the baby bonus paperwork before they do your FTA/baby bonus but it might still take longer. They told me when the 21 days runs out - August 3rd. And there seems to be no way to speed the process up.

If there's no backpay coming, then the baby bonus/FTA clearly isn't set up to be a maternity leave substitute payment if it takes a month from sending the forms in to getting paid - longer if they just add it to your regular payment.

That's very slow - I've had the birth certificate for weeks now, it arrived a few days after we posted it in.