Maternity benefit - Find out how to receive it

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Maternity aid is the right of all working women who contribute to the INSS. All these women, through this benefit, can take leave from their jobs without their salary being lost or altered, for a period of at least 120 days.

The criterion for being a beneficiary of the maternity aid benefit is based on certain deadlines. There are 120 days when there is a birth, 120 in cases of adoption of minors or legal guardianship for this purpose and 120 days in case the fetus dies in the womb or at the time of delivery.

The benefit is intended exclusively for the maternal group, and contributes to people who need to leave their job due to the birth of the baby, adoption, legal custody for adoption and even cases of spontaneous abortion, that is, no criminal.

Understand how the benefit application works

The request for maternity aid can be made virtually, and saves the need to go to the physical INSS service posts. It will only be necessary to attend when you reach the stage of proof and presentation of documents.

However, you will carry out the entire aid request procedure virtually, through the “Meu INSS” app, with your login and password. After accessing it, you will select which benefit you are interested in requesting, fill in the data and wait.

It is a very simple and practical application to handle, anyone can understand and carry out the necessary procedures, even the most lay people. The interface has a very self-explanatory and objective interaction field.

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Criteria for applying for Maternity Allowance

Therefore, in order for you to be entitled to maternity aid, you must necessarily comply with the requirements set out in the date of delivery, miscarriage, adoption or legal custody.

Among these requirements, the amount of time worked is counted, so that the grace period can be verified. It will be 10 months for that worker who contributes individually, optional and special insured and is exempt from the insured employee, housemaids and independent workers.

With regard to the unemployed, proof of the status of insured and INSS taxpayer will be required. In this case, you will need to have completed 10 months of exercise. If you have lost your status as an insured person, you need at least a 5-month grace period prior to childbirth or the occasion that generated the benefit.

How long does the Maternity Allowance last?

With regard to the duration of the maternity aid benefit, it is conditioned to the type of occasion/event that generated the benefit, such as childbirth, adoption, abortion and legal custody, see below:

In order for you to be successful in the service at physical INSS posts, you must present documentation with a photo and CPF number. In addition, the working person must present a work card and proof that he is a contributor to the INSS.

However, the person who is unemployed must, without exception, present the birth certificate of the baby or stillbirth. The worker who will leave 28 days before the birth will need to prove it by means of a medical certificate, exclusively for pregnant women.

General provisions regarding your right

In cases of judicial custody, the worker will need to demonstrate the Term of Custody along with the indication that the custody is intended for adoption. However, in the event of adoption, a new certificate must be presented.

However, the new certificate must be the one issued after the court decision. If you have any doubts about the documentation, it is valid that you consult the page that refers to the documentation for proof of contribution time.

Don't lose by waiting and claim your right now, gather all the essential and necessary documentation and make your request now to receive your maternity aid, which will be added to your official salary.

Apply for your benefit right now

Enfim, depois de ler toda matéria e perceber que pode ser um beneficiário pelo auxílio maternidade, baixa agora mesmo o app “Meu INSS” clicando aqui para realizar todo procedimento necessário para sua solicitação.

If you don't fit any of the criteria set out above, but know someone who is in this situation and could be a beneficiary, share this link with that person right now so that they can better inform themselves on the subject.

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