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The SSS Maternity Benefit is a daily cash allowance granted by the SSS to a female SSS member who is unable to work due to childbirth or miscarriage. The SSS female member can avail of the SSS maternity benefit for her first four (4) delivery or miscarriage.
Question: My husband is paying as an SSS Member. Me (a housewife) is not an SSS member. Can my husband apply for an SSS Maternity Benefit for me?
Answer: No. You should be an SSS Member and should have the required contribution to qualify for the SSS Maternity Benefit. You may register as a Non Working Housewife, or as Self Employed and pay regularly for your SSS Contribution for you to qualify for SSS Maternity Benefit when you get pregnant.
Question 2: I wasnt’t able to apply for SSS Maternity Benefit when I gave to birth to my child. Now he is 7 years old, can I still apply?
Answer: Yes. Application for the SSS Maternity Benefit can still be done until the child is 10 years old. Go immediately to SSS Branch near you to ask and submit your requirements.
Question 3: I am bearing my fifth child, but I haven’t claimed yet an SSS Maternity Benefit in my first four children. Can I still apply for an SSS Benefit?
Answer: No. Only the first four pregnancy can be applied to claim for the SSS Maternity Benefit even if you haven’t claimed for SSS Maternity Benefit on your previous pregnancy.
Question 4: I am already pregnant. Can I pay for my SSS to qualify a maternity benefit?
Answer: It depends on your Contribution. Some may qualify if they can still pay previous quarter immediately after they knew they are pregnant. Read carefully on How to know if I am Eligible for SSS Maternity Benefit.
You are Eligible for the SSS Maternity Benefit if you have paid at least 3 monthly contributions within the 12 months immediately BEFORE your Semester of Delivery/Contingency (childbirth or miscarriage).
Common Misconceptions on the Eligibility on SSS Maternity Benefit
The qualification on the paid SSS monthly contribution is tricky, especially for those that are paying voluntarily. So allow us to explain how to be qualified for an SSS Maternity benefit.
To know if you are qualified:
For our Example No 1.
Expected Month of Delivery is December 2018.
Semester of Contingency is July-December 2018.
12 Month Period prior to Semester of Contingency: July 2017-June 2018.
From July 2017-June 2018, the SSS member should have at least 3 months contribution posted to qualify for the SSS Maternity Benefit.
For our Example No 2.
Expected Month of Delivery is July 2018.
Semester of Contingency is April-September 2018.
12 Month Period prior to Semester of Contingency: April 2017 – March 2018.
From April 2017 – March 2018, the SSS Member should have at least 3 months contribution to qualify for the SSS Maternity Benefit.
Now that you already know the contribution eligibility to be qualified for the SSS Maternity Benefit, you may check your posted contributions online. If can still cope up for your Contributions by paying quarterly payment (as a Voluntary Member) or paying for the whole year contribution (if you are an OFW member), then do so. You may check the SSS Contributions Schedule and Deadline of payment thru this link. If you are Employed and you found out that your Contributions are not completely posted, go directly to the Payroll officer of your company to know the status of your contribution remittance.
Now that you know if you are qualified or not, now, let us proceed on how to Apply for SSS Maternity Benefit.
tep 1 should be done within 60 days after you confirmed your pregnancy. Make sure to keep your SSS-approved/acknowledged Maternity Notification document as this will be one of the documents you will present when filing your SSS Maternity Reimbursement in Step 2.
Here are three ways on how to Notify SSS About your Pregnancy:
A. Thru your Employer (if Employed) or thru SSS Branch (if Voluntary Member)
As soon as you have confirmed that you are pregnant (either thru your Pregnancy test kit or ultrasound), you must immediately notify your employer if you’re employed, or notify SSS directly if you are an SSS Voluntary member.
To notify of your Pregnancy, you must submit of the following documents with your estimated date of delivery:
You must submit these documents to your Employer or SSS at least 60 days from the date of conception.
For employed members, once you submitted these documents to your employer (or through your HR officer), your employer will then immediately notify SSS about your pregnancy.
B. Thru SSS Website
If you are registered to My.SSS online, you can file or submit the SSS Maternity Notification at the SSS website. You don’t need to submit any other documents.
C. Thru Text Notification
You can notify your SSS Maternity thru Text Message following this format.
SSS REG <SS NUMBER> <DATE OF BIRTH> then send to 2600.
Example: SSS REG 031234567 01/01/80
SSS MATERNITYNOTIF at isend sa 2600.
Each text costs P2.50 for Globe/Touch Mobile and Smart Subscribers and P2.00 for Sun Cellulars. You will receive a Text confirmation after the SSS received your text notification. Make sure to keep your PIN for your next SSS Text Service Transaction.
Here is the list of SSS Transactions that you can do in SSS Text Services
D. Thru SSS Self Service Information Terminals you can find in SSS Branch and some Malls.
No documentation needed for Maternity Notification filed thru SSS website, text or SSIT.
Step 2 should be done before you take a maternity leave if you are employed or after you have delivered if you are a Self Employed, Voluntary member. For Self Employed, Voluntary Members, the Maternity Benefit Reimbursement can be filed at any SSS Branch convenient to the member. After giving birth, you have 10 years to file your MAT2, but of course, you file your claim as soon as you have completed your documents.
A. For employed members
The benefit is advanced in full by the Employer to the qualified female employee within 30 days from the date of filing of the maternity leave application. The SSS, in turn, shall immediately reimburse the Employer 100% of the amount of maternity benefit advanced to the female employee upon receipt of satisfactory proof of such payment.
Requirements:
B. For Self-Employed/Voluntary Members
The maternity benefit is paid directly to them by the SSS thru their single savings/current/cash card/prepaid account in an SSS-accredited bank under the Sickness Maternity Benefit-Payment Thru the Bank. If the member does not have an existing bank account, the SSS shall issue a Letter of Introduction (LOI) form that must be presented to the SSS-accredited bank chosen by the member for the purposes of opening a single savings account or cash card account.
Requirements:
C. For Separated Members
Requirements:
Requirements:
Additional Requirements depending on the case of Maternity:
Normal delivery
Cesarean delivery
For Complete Miscarriage
For Incomplete Miscarriage
For Ectopic Pregnancy
If you are employed, your SSS Maternity Benefit is advanced in full by the Employer to the qualified female employee within 30 days from the date of filing of the maternity leave application. The SSS, in turn, shall immediately reimburse the Employer 100% of the amount of maternity benefit advanced to the female employee upon receipt of satisfactory proof of such payment.
For this purpose, all Employers are required to enroll in the “Sickness and Maternity Benefits Payment thru-the-Bank Program” (SMB-PTB), wherein SSS reimbursements will be deposited directly to the existing savings/current account of the Employer in an SSS-accredited bank. The Payment Advice containing the payment details of the Sickness-Maternity reimbursement will be sent to the ER thru his/her My.SSS account in the SSS website
If you are a Self-Employed/Voluntary Member, the maternity benefit is paid directly to you by the SSS thru their single savings/current/cash card/prepaid account in an SSS-accredited bank under the SMB-PTB.
If you does not have an existing bank account, the SSS shall issue a Letter of Introduction (LOI) form that must be presented to the SSS-accredited bank chosen by the member for the purposes of opening a single savings account or cash card account.
The computation and the amount of your SSS Maternity benefit are based on your Monthly Salaey Credit of your SSS contribution. The Monthly salary credit (MSC) means the compensation base for contributions and benefits related to the total earnings for the month. The maximum compensation is P16,000, effective January 1, 2014. The higher your MSC are, the higher the amount you’ll get from SSS.
Before we jump in to the computation of your would be SSS benefit, let us first dig in to what MSC is.
For example, if your monthly salary is P20,000 and you pay P1,760 per month for your SSS contribution, your monthly salary credit or MSC is P16,000.
As of August 2018 (time of writing of this post), P16,000 is the maximum MSC based on the Table of Contribution. It means that even if you receive a monthly income of P30,000 or P100,000 or any amount greater than P15,750, your MSC still remains at P16,000.
On the other hand, the minimum salary credit is P1,000 for members with a declared monthly income of P1,000 to P1,249.99 who pay the minimum SSS contribution of P110 per month.
Generally, these are the steps when computing for the SSS Maternity Benefit:
The lowest Maternity Benefit amount is P1,000 for Normal Delivery and P1,300 for Ceasarean Delivery, if a member’s Monthly Salary Credit was only P1,000 and has only three monthly contribution within the twelve month period prior to the semester of delivery.
The maximum Maternity Benefit possible is P32,000 pesos for Normal Delivery and 41,600 for Ceasarean Delivery provided that the member has at least six monthly contribution of Monthly Salary Credit P16,000.
We will continually update this article, if a new procedure or computation will be adopted by SSS.
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