Applying for maternity benefit
Description
During the protection periods before and after childbirth as well as for the day of delivery, you can receive maternity benefit.
If you are a member of the statutory health insurance, apply for maternity benefit from your health insurance company.
If you are privately insured or family insured and are in an employment relationship at the beginning of the protection period (this also includes a minor employment relationship/mini-job), submit the application to the Federal Insurance Office and receive a one-time maximum of EUR 210.00.
Self-employed women who are not insured with a statutory health insurance company with entitlement to sickness benefit, but who have private health insurance, do not receive maternity benefit.
Self-employed women who are insured with a statutory health insurance fund entitled to daily sickness benefit receive maternity benefit in the amount of the sickness benefit.
legally insured (employee, regardless of whether voluntary or compulsorily insured):
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Maternity allowance maximum EUR 13.00/day from the statutory health insurance
legally insured (unemployed):
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Maternity benefit in the amount of unemployment benefit I
family insured (employee, at least with mini-job):
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Maternity allowance, one-off maximum EUR 210.00, from the Federal Insurance Office
voluntarily insured in the GKV with entitlement to sickness benefit (self-employed):
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Maternity allowance in the amount of sickness benefit
privately insured (employee, at least with mini-job):
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Maternity allowance, one-off maximum EUR 210.00, from the Federal Insurance Office
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Application form
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medical certificate of the calculated date of birth
Service Team BMFSFJ - Topic Group E
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