The maternity benefit is equivalent to 100 per cent of the member's average daily salary credit multiplied by 60 days for normal delivery or miscarriage, 78 days for caesarean section delivery.
Benefit Computation:
1.Exclude the semester of contingency (delivery or miscarriage).
2.Count 12 months backwards starting from the month immediately before the semester of contingency.
3.Identify the six highest monthly salary credits within the 12-month period.
4.Add the six highest monthly salary credits to get the total monthly salary credit.
5.Divide the total monthly salary credit by 180 days to get the average daily salary credit. This is equivalent to the daily maternity allowance
6.Multiply the daily maternity allowance by 60 (for normal delivery or miscarriage) or 78 days (for caesarean section delivery) to get the total amount of maternity benefit.
example of computation:
SSS member gives birth in December 2015
-The semester of contingency would be from July 2015 to December 2015.
-The 12-month period before the semester of contingency would be from July 2014 to June 2015.
-Let us assume that the six highest monthly salary credits are P15,000 each. Thus, the total monthly salary credit would be P90,000 (P15, 000 x 6)
-The daily maternity allowance would be P500 (P90,000/180).
-The total maternity benefit due would be P30,000 (P500 x 60 days) for normal delivery/miscarriage/ectopic pregnancy not requiring operation, or P39,000 (P500 x 78) for caesarian cases or ectopic pregnancy requiring operation.
IMPORTANT:
For employed members, the benefit is advanced by the employer to the qualified employee, in full, within 30 days from the date of filing of the maternity leave application. The SSS, in turn, shall immediately reimburse the employer 100 percent of the amount of maternity benefit advanced to the female employee upon receipt of satisfactory proof of such payment and legality thereof.
Notification Procedures
For Employees and Employers:
As soon as a member becomes pregnant, she must immediately notify her employer of such pregnancy and the probable date of her childbirth at least 60 days from the date of conception by accomplishing the SSS Maternity Notification Form and by submitting proof of pregnancy.
The employer must, in turn, notify the SSS through the submission of the maternity notification form and proof of pregnancy immediately after the receipt of the notification from the employee member.
Notification may be made over the counter at an SSS branch, or online through the SSS Website (www.sss.gov.ph), in which the member/employer must be a registered user.
Application Requirements
For Notification
For Employee , Unemployed/Self-Employed/Voluntary members
Maternity Notification Form
UMID or SSS biometrics ID card or two (2) other valid IDs, both with signature and at least one (1) with photo and date of birth
Proof of pregnancy (ultrasound report)
For Reimbursement
For Employed Members
Maternity Notification Form duly stamped and received by SSS
Maternity Reimbursement Form
UMID or SSS biometrics ID card or two (2) other valid IDs, both with signature and at least one (1) with photo and date of birth
To ensure receipt of benefits by members, authorized company representatives who file maternity benefit claim must present the member's SSS digitized ID or E-6 acknowledgement stub with two valid IDs (at least one with photo). This requirement is in addition to the presentation by the company representative's own SSS digitized ID and blue-card.
Additional Requirements :
Normal delivery - certified true or authenticated copy of duly registered birth certificate. In case the child dies or is a stillborn, duly registered death or fetal death certificate.
Caesarean delivery - certified or authenticated copy of duly registered birth certificate and certified true copy of operating room record/surgical memorandum.
