How to get maternity benefits for a non-working woman in 2021

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Published: 03/01/2016

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The birth of a child always affects the financial situation of the family to one degree or another. And financial investments in the health of the mother and in ensuring a comfortable life for the baby in the near future are required even before the moment of birth.

If the mother worked before pregnancy, she will not have any difficulties in receiving maternity payments . She is protected socially. But women who are not working or who are continuing their studies at universities experience justifiable anxiety. Do they have a chance of receiving maternity benefits?

Employed and unemployed - difference in payments
How to get maternity benefits
Special types of assistance
Categories of women and their benefits

Maternity payments to a non-working mother in 2021

The procedure for paying various maternity benefits is regulated by Federal Law No. 255 of December 29, 2006.

In accordance with Art. 2 The following have the right to maternity benefits:

persons working under employment contracts;
state and municipal employees;
individual entrepreneurs;
other “self-employed” persons paying contributions to their social insurance.

As you can see, nothing is stipulated in the law about non-working mothers. Consequently, these categories of persons are not provided with maternity leave.

This is explained by the fact that the so-called maternity payments are characterized as compensation for earnings that the expectant mother does not receive due to maternity leave. But a non-working woman does not have such income.

The exceptions are:

Expectant mothers who were forced to quit due to the liquidation of their employer.
Unemployed female students of inpatient departments of educational institutions. They receive a stipend benefit regardless of whether they pay for their education or not.

Thus, maternity benefits are not provided to non-working mothers. However, the state has provided other benefits for non-working mothers.

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To summarize, it should be noted that government support measures for non-working mothers are significantly inferior to the types of assistance provided for by labor legislation for working pregnant women. Thus, unemployed pregnant girls can expect to receive only two out of four possible types of maternity payments, and the amount of these benefits is fixed and, as a rule, lower than similar payments to working mothers. However, the state does not ignore this category of citizens and provides a level of material security, although not great.

Social benefits for unemployed mothers

Regardless of employment, every pregnant citizen of the Russian Federation has the right to social benefits. She is entitled to various types of benefits for childbirth and child care.

The legislation provides for several forms of support for families. Moreover, if previously child care benefits were not paid to unemployed mothers, today absolutely all categories of mothers can count on social payments.

After the birth of a child, parents have the right to receive 2 types of benefits, which are paid on different conditions:

child care allowance for up to one and a half years;
regional child benefit.

Regional benefits are assigned and paid in all regions of Russia according to different rules and in different amounts.

There are several types of social support:

One-time payments after childbirth.
Monthly payments for child care up to 1.5 years.
Other payments aimed at supporting families with young and minor children.

Payment amounts:

The one-time payment for the birth of a baby in 2021 is 16,350.33 rubles.
Monthly support for the first child up to one and a half years old is 3065.69 rubles. For the birth of a second child, the allowance is 6,131.37 rubles monthly.

At the birth of a baby, a previously unemployed mother will be offered a choice of 2 options for receiving financial payments:

Further transfers of unemployment money
Replacing unemployment payments with child care benefits.

Important! From 01.01. In 2010, a rule was introduced stating that in order to receive a monthly allowance for child care up to 1.5 years old and regional payments, a non-working mother must be registered in the same place as the child.

Maternal capital

Maternity capital is paid for the second and subsequent children

If a family has a second or third child, regardless of social status, the state pays 453,026 rubles. The same is true when adopting a child. This program started in January 2007.

This is another type of payment that is due to any woman, working or not working. Maternity capital is the most effective way of social support for a family. The only condition for receiving this payment is the ability to use it only to improve the family’s living conditions and pay for children’s education.

Other types of state support for unemployed mothers

The law of the Russian Federation allows low-income families, where the woman works informally or does not work at all, to receive food for the baby from the dairy kitchen at the birth of a child until the child reaches 2 years of age.

If there is no dairy kitchen near the family’s place of residence, the social security service is obliged to assign regular payments to the family in the form of monetary compensation equal to the cost of food. The amount of such compensation is set at the regional level.

Needy families who are below the poverty line and whose parents are not employed are entitled to payments for the maintenance and upbringing of minor children.

The size of these payments depends on the number of children. Such support is provided if the income received for each family member does not reach the official subsistence level.

In addition, the amount of state support depends on the region of residence of the family and, as a rule, is about 300 rubles per month for each child. Thus, a mother with two children will additionally receive about 600 rubles per month.

Payments also apply to adult children who study in vocational, higher or secondary technical educational institutions. Mothers make monthly payments for them until the child completes his studies.

If a family has an unemployed mother and an employed father, then only the mother has the right to claim benefits for caring for a newborn.

This benefit is intended only for the family member caring for the child. By default, these duties are assumed to be performed by a non-working family member.

If the mother is not working, the working father is also not entitled to leave to care for the baby.

How to get maternity benefits for a non-working woman?

Unemployed pregnant women often ask the question: “Will I be able to get maternity benefits if I get pregnant and don’t work?”

The answer will be: “In this case, payments are due, but not all and in a smaller amount than for employed citizens.”

According to the law, non-working women are not entitled to maternity leave (with the exception of those women who were fired during the liquidation of an enterprise and students).

Unemployed expectant mothers are only entitled to receive child benefits, which are accrued after the birth of the child.

To obtain maternity benefits, a non-working mother must contact the social security authorities at her place of registration. She needs to prepare a package of documents confirming her right to use government assistance.

Here's what you need for this:

Application with a request to assign the due monthly payments (written in any form).
A certificate received from a medical institution confirming pregnancy for at least 30 weeks.
An extract from the work book indicating the last place of work, certified by a notary.
A document from the employment center officially confirming your unemployed status.
A certificate from the university confirming full-time study (for female students).

After 10 days from the date of submission of the application and documents, employees of the social protection department must decide whether to accrue benefits to the pregnant woman.

To obtain financial support from the state for a newborn, an unemployed woman must also contact the social security service and provide the following set of documents :

passport;
baby's birth certificate;
birth certificates for other children (if any);
certificate of family composition;
details of the account to which benefits will be paid;
certificate of absence of unemployment payments.

Making payments and accruing state support to pregnant women and mothers is strictly regulated by law.

The Social Security Service considers awarding the woman payments and benefits within 10 days after accepting the application and accompanying documents.

If the woman’s application is satisfied, transfers will be made every month no later than the 26th. Money can be transferred by mail or transferred to a bank account.

Allowance for the wife and children of a military man.

The standard benefit amount in 2021 is 11,863.27 rubles, but it is subject to change. It depends on the regional coefficient.

Because This indicator is not provided for Moscow and St. Petersburg, then residents of these cities receive basic assistance.

Every year the benefit is indexed depending on inflationary growth.

To receive such assistance, you must prepare the following documents:

statement,
birth document,
passport,
a certificate issued by a military unit indicating when the service will end,
Marriage certificate,
the account into which the applicant wants to receive funds.

How much pay?

Next, we will present the types and amounts of state support that different categories of unemployed women who have given birth to a child can count on in 2021:

Maternity benefits: only for women dismissed due to the liquidation of the employer, registered with medical institutions within 12 weeks - 613.14 rubles.
Maternity benefits for those dismissed during pregnancy - 34473.60 rubles, for students - in the amount of a scholarship.
One-time benefit for the birth of a child: for all categories of women in the amount of 16,350.33 rubles.
Monthly benefits up to 1.5 years: 3065.69 (when caring for the first child); 6131.37 (when caring for the second and subsequent children). For women laid off due to the liquidation of an enterprise - 40% of her average earnings.

Of course, the amount of payments to unemployed pregnant women and mothers with children is very small.

However, this assistance is sometimes the only financial protection for stay-at-home mothers.

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Good afternoon Please tell me, I am 5 weeks pregnant, but I am not working today. Until December 7, 2018, I worked and all previous years too. Can I count on receiving maternity benefits? Taking into account work in 2021 and 2021. /730 days* for 140 days of vacation I get = 365,000.00 rubles. If I register with the employment center and receive unemployed status, will I receive this benefit? Or can you recommend something else?
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Please tell me, at the moment I haven’t worked for a year, I was laid off, but my work book says I was fired by agreement of the two parties.
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