Maternity pay: entitlement and application

Receive maternity pay from SBK during your maternity leave

We will issue your maternity pay to you for the duration of your maternity leave. Your maternity leave is the time during your pregnancy in which you don’t have to work, starting six weeks before you give birth and ending eight weeks after. In the case of premature or multiple births, the postnatal maternity leave during which you are eligible for maternity pay extends to 12 weeks.

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Maternity pay – your SBK benefits:

If we don’t already have access to your income level, we can ask your employer directly. This means you don’t need to worry about this aspect of your maternity pay application.

It doesn’t matter whether your baby arrives earlier or later than expected: we will deal with the extension of your maternity leave.

If you can get the written confirmation of your expected due date to us before you give birth, we can start paying your maternity pay immediately for the period running up to the special day.

How much maternity pay are you entitled to? As an expectant mother, you will receive maternity pay from SBK if you are in employment when you start your maternity leave. The level of maternity pay is based on your net income and amounts to a maximum of €13.00 per day. Your employer will make up the difference (if required) to your current salary. If you were unemployed prior to giving birth, you are entitled to receive maternity pay amounting to the same value as your unemployment benefit.

It goes without saying that you are still a member of SBK while you are receiving maternity pay. What’s more, your baby can also enjoy the full benefits of SBK insurance cover from the moment they are born. Please contact your SBK consultant for more details.

SBK helps you to action your entitlement to maternity pay and even supports you with your application. To ensure your application for maternity pay runs as smoothly as possible, please let us know your expected due date by seven weeks before the birth at the earliest. You will then receive written confirmation of this free of charge from your doctor.

Maternity pay: essential paperwork

Your doctor or midwife will provide you with written confirmation of your expected due date prior to giving birth. Please complete the form on the back of this document and send it to us for your maternity pay application. You will then receive your maternity pay for the period in the run-up to your baby’s birth.

Once your baby is born, you will receive a birth certificate or similar confirmation featuring the note ‘maternity support’ from the relevant registry office. In the event of premature or multiple births, your doctor will also provide you with written confirmation free of charge. Please forward this to us so that we can calculate and issue your total entitlement to maternity pay. Find our postal address and a prepaid envelope for submitting these certificates and confirmations here.

Maternity pay: entitlement and application

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