Guide on SSS Maternity Benefit Requirements 2024 for Members
SSS MATERNITY BENEFIT REQUIREMENTS 2024 – Listed below are the documents required by the Social Security System in filing for a claim.
One of the state-run social insurance giants in the Philippines is the Social Security System. Millions of Filipinos are members of the state entity that is more popularly called SSS. Every month, the members submit a monthly contribution to keep an updated account.
On the other side of an updated account is the probable eligibility to the SSS benefits and the SSS loans offered by the state entity. One of the benefit offers is the Maternity Benefit which is extended to qualified pregnant members of the state-run social insurance institution.
To qualify for the SSS Maternity Benefit claim, the pregnant member must inform her employer (if locally-employed) or the SSS directly about her pregnancy within 60 days since the concepction.
If you are a locally-employed member, you must submit the following SSS Maternity Benefit requirements to your employer for notice to SSS about your pregnancy, otherwise, submit the documents directly to SSS:
- 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)
There are other SSS Maternity Benefit requirements for releasing of the benefit. Here are the documents needed based on the employment status of the pregnant member:
If employed:
- 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.
If self-employed or voluntary member:
- 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
If separated from employment:
- Maternity Reimbursement Form
- Certification from the last employer showing the effective date of separation from employment or notice of company’s closure/strike or certification from the Department of Labor and Employment that the employee or employer has a pending labor case.
- Certification that no advance payment was granted (if confinement days applied for are within or prior to separation).
- 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
Aside from the aforementioned documents, there are documents required by the SSS for submission based on the type of delivery:
- For normal delivery — Certified true or authenticated copy of the duly registered birth certificate
- For caesarean delivery — Certified or authenticated copy of the duly registered birth certificate and certified true copy of operating room record/surgical memorandum
- For miscarriage:
- obstetrical history stating the number of pregnancies certified by the attending physician and dilatation and curettage (D&C) report
- pregnancy test before and after abortion with the age of gestation