How to calculate your maternity benefits: the latest guide for parents

Maternity benefits are one of the top concerns for employees when they have a baby. During maternity leave, employees do not receive a salary from their employer. Instead, they receive 03 allowances under the social insurance maternity scheme, including:

1. One-off childbirth allowance

Article 38 of the Law on Social Insurance provides that:

• A female employee who gives birth receives a one-off allowance for each child equal to 02 times the base salary in the month she gives birth.
• If only the father pays social insurance, the father receives a one-off allowance for each child equal to 02 times the base salary in the month of birth.
• Currently, the base salary used to calculate the one-off childbirth allowance is 1,490,000 VND/month.
• So the one-off allowance for each child is: 1,490,000 VND x 2 = 2,980,000 VND.

2. Maternity pay during maternity leave

Currently, female employees who give birth are entitled to 06 months of maternity leave with maternity benefits, before and after giving birth.

Article 39 of the Law on Social Insurance states:

• The monthly maternity benefit for a female employee who gives birth equals 100% of her average monthly salary on which social insurance was paid for the 06 months before taking maternity leave.
• If the employee has paid social insurance for less than 06 months, the benefit is the average monthly salary of the months for which social insurance was paid.

3. Postnatal recovery allowance

Under Article 41 of the 2014 Law on Social Insurance:

A female employee who, within the first 30 days of returning to work right after her maternity leave, has not yet recovered her health is entitled to recovery leave.

The recovery leave is calculated as follows:

• Up to 10 days for a female employee who gives birth to two or more children at once;
• Up to 07 days for a female employee who has a caesarean section;
• Up to 05 days in other cases.

Note: This period includes public holidays, Tet holidays and weekly days off.

During recovery leave, female employees receive an allowance of 30% of the base salary per day.

So for recovery leave taken in 2024, the recovery allowance is 447,000 VND/day (30% of the base salary of 1.49 million VND/month).

Above is all the information on calculating maternity benefits in 2024. If you have any questions about maternity benefits, parents can contact the relevant authorities for timely support!

Reference:

Vietnam Law Library (Thu vien phap luat)