Will pay or not



Many women become mothers, working without official registration by the labour or having the status of Housewives. Of course officially, a woman is considered unemployed. And many women being in the situation you begin to wonder do they pay the unemployed, mothers on maternity leave and can we expect any benefit.

It should be clearly understood that maternity leave paid by the employer, not the state. With government organizations, everything is clear - here the employee once issued for the TC. But with private firms, things are a little more complicated. Many commercial organizations not officially make out their employees, so if a woman worked without a contract, it cannot rely on any maternity payments. If a woman is not formally employed in the decree she rely only benefits coming from the state. The size of such payments is not great, and can not be compared with the maternity benefits for working mothers. Sometimes many women rely on the exchange of employment are documented as unemployed, hoping some payments, but there to pay maternity and unemployment benefits are not - have no right.


Who should



Not all the unemployed citizens who are on maternity leave or leave to care for a child are legally entitled to receive benefits. With the exception of those cases when the fact of the dismissal was the result of liquidation of the enterprise, and accordingly, a pregnant woman got under reduction. Making the calculation of maternity allowance in this case is produced in the bodies of social protection at the place of residence, it is necessary to provide a full package of required documents. Also an exception is the case that the mother is studying full-time Department of an educational institution. For students, the amount of maternity payments depends on the size of the scholarship. To make such payment at the place of study.

Unemployed decretion not allowed a lump sum for registration at an early stage of pregnancy. Although some regions carried out the allowance, notwithstanding the provisions of the Federal law on payments. For example, such payments for disabled decretion produced in the Moscow region. Payment of maternity benefits for the unemployed are made by the social insurance Fund. The amount of maternity benefits for unemployed category of citizens is calculated based on the size of unemployment benefits.