The most important of them are the social insurance benefits for workers maternity leave and allowance, confinement allowance, child care leave and allowance, care leave and allowance.

Child care allowances

Child care allowances b

Child raising pension

A parent on parental leave can receive parental benefit until the child is 11 months old, after that the parent will receive child care allowance until the child is 3 years old.

of child care leave (of three years apos duration) to take care of a child under four years of age.

As regards non insured persons, the allowance during the leave (parental leave only) is paid by the municipal authorities.

160. Maternity benefits include first of all the maternity allowance and the confinement benefit.

A woman worker taking care of a disabled child is entitled to the child care leave and allowance for a period of 72 months.

Parents are permitted to make their own decision as to how they will divide up the last 10 weeks of the time they receive maternity benefit (parental leave).

In connection with parental leave it is possible for the municipal authorities to supplement the allowance paid to parents on leave by an amount of up to DKr 35,000 per year.

Under this legislation employees could obtain parental leave and training leave with a leave allowance of up to 80 per cent of the maximum rate of unemployment benefits.

233. The child care allowance is a worker apos s right.

Maternity benefits

Maternity benefits

3. Maternity benefits

The mother is also entitled to go on leave and receive benefits (equal to sickness benefits) four weeks before the estimated date of birth of her child when

It provides for society assisting in raising and bringing up children by one time cash benefits in cases of birth, family benefits for children, special benefits for single parents, as well as for families where the parents are enrolled in regular forms of education and have small children, etc.

234. Child care allowances are paid from the Social Insurance Fund.

Female workers on maternity leave, no matter how many births they have given, are entitled to natal allowance.

(c) Education allowance

The child care allowance

Education grant claims

The state's family benefits are childbirth allowance, child allowance, child care allowance, single parent's child allowance, conscript's child allowance, school allowance, foster care allowance, start in independent life allowance, allowance for families with three or more children and families raising triplets, and adoption allowance.

This allowance helps children participate in community sports and cultural activities.

Single mothers (fathers) are entitled to a higher child care allowance.

Women are entitled to maternity insurance, which includes a hospitalization grant, a maternity grant, a birth allowance and a maternity leave allowance.

This resulted in lower requirements for recreational leave allowance.

In Kazakhstan, family benefits are paid in the form of targeted social assistance, childbirth allowance, special State allowances and housing allowances.

Monthly child allowances

Cash social insurance and social welfare benefits for women fulfilling criteria prescribed by law (maternity, confinement and child care allowances, social welfare allowance for pregnant women of limited means)

(b) Any benefits from the Social Security Institution, except children apos s disability benefits

Deduction of mission subsistence allowance owing to leave days taken.

386. The personnel of the Ministry of Education enjoy specific benefits (teaching allowance, training allowance, allowance for teaching in rural areas, etc.).

330. The allowances for families bringing up disabled children are linked to the family allowances.

In case of twins or triplets etc., who are alive on the date of application for benefits, the pregnancy and confinement benefits increase by 50 for each child after the first one.

Moreover, no payment was made to staff members while on home leave and family visit travel since the allowance is not payable while a staff member is on such leave.

Third, the rate of the allowance depends on the period of sickness.

The Committee was also informed that the overpayment was made as a result of the erroneous application of mission subsistence allowance rules in regard to several components of mission subsistence allowance entitlement, for example, compensatory time off, the 1.5 day accrued mission subsistence allowance credit and weekends and holidays taken during leave.

311. For individual farmers the rate of the maternity allowance (from 1 January 1991) is equal to eight weeks apos sickness allowance (the sickness allowance is payable at the rate of one thirtieth of the basic old age pension for every day of incapacity for work).

The child care allowance is granted for a period of 24 months, or 36 months in the case of single mothers.

Additionally, a mother is entitled to an allowance in kind to cover the most necessary requirements of every child born.

Act of 1 December 1994 concerning family and nursing allowances (Dziennik Ustaw of 1995 No. 4, Text 7)

The care allowance is payable at the rate of 100 per cent of remuneration received in the period preceding the care leave.

308. The period of the leave (payment of the allowance) is the same for the first child in the case of individual farmers and amounts to 16 weeks.