Hospital maternity and childbirth

As the time of the child's birth is approaching, the issue of registration and payment of maternity decree becomes more urgent for the future mother. A disability sheet in this case is issued in a form that is designed for any disease. However, it should be noted some features of its issuance:

• a sick-list for a pregnant woman is issued not by any doctor, but only by an obstetrician-gynecologist (if there is none, then it is issued by a general practitioner or paramedic);
• this document is issued at thirty weeks of gestation, except for two or more fetuses, when the document can be discharged at 28 weeks;
• a sick leave in Russia is issued for 140 days (at the rate of 70 days before / after the birth of the baby), but with the carrying of two or more children, the period increases to 194 days (at the rate of 84 days before / 110 days after the birth of the baby). At the same time, in Ukraine it is issued for 126 days (70 days before / 56 days after, respectively), and at the birth of twins, or in case of difficult births, this period increases by 14 days, amounting to 140 days.

It is important to know that the total number of days can be distributed by a woman in different ways. For example, often future mothers take only a few days before delivery and most of the time after.

Sometimes, at first, women refuse to issue a certificate of this type, making the decision to work up to the most important day, but later change their decision when the time has already been missed. In this case, the document must still be issued to them, with the only clarification that the period of leave will not be counted from the date of circulation, but also from the 30 or 28 weeks of their "interesting situation". If the expectant mother expects the second baby, staying on the decree to take care of the first child, she has the right to write a pregnancy and childbirth application in order to get a sick-list in the general order.

Making pregnancy and childbirth assistance

In order to apply for maternity leave , you must fill out the invalid's work sheet in the correct manner:

• in the line about the reason for incapacity for work, you need to specify the code "05", which corresponds to the basis for issuance in this article;
• in the line on the registration for medical records at the earliest possible "interesting position" (that is, up to 12 weeks) a positive / negative response is indicated;
• in the line on the release from work the dates of the first, and also the last days of the leave of the future mother are entered;
• the line concerning the TIN is not subject to filling;
• in the line on the amount of the benefit, the column "at the expense of the employer" is not filled, because the money for pregnancy and childbirth is transferred by the Social Insurance Fund.

Compensation for pregnancy and childbirth

To legally formalize absenteeism and later receive compensation, you must provide a sheet of disability to the employer. It is recommended, although not necessarily, to write a statement clearly indicating the dates that must correspond to the dates from the disability sheet.

The amount of compensation is calculated on the basis of data on the average earnings of the mother for the last two years that she worked. The allowance is set equal to the full average earnings. In this case, only working days are taken into account, and only those payments that can be qualified as income. Periods of temporary incapacity for work, as well as periods of dismissal from work for which there was no accrual of insurance contributions, are not taken into account. If, after the first decree, the second decree is immediately executed, the calculation is made on the basis of data from two to three years ago, since there are no new data for the billing period, because the woman did not work.