The period during which fathers of newborns can file an application to get a paternity allowance was extended to 12 months of the child’s date of birth. The amendment takes effect on July 1, 2019. Under the Labor Code, the father is entitled to 14-day paternity leave that is granted based on a written application during the first 56 days of the child’s date of birth, IPN reports.

In a press release, the National House of Social Insurance said the insured father included in the public social insurance system, who is employed based on an individual work contract, can benefit from a paternity allowance. To get such an allowance, the father must confirm the total insurance period of at least three years or at least nine months during the 24 months prior to the child’s date of birth. This should also prove that he had an insured income during the three months prior to the child’s date of birth and was given, at request, paternity leave in all the units where this works during the first 56 days of the child’s birth date.

The application for a paternity allowance can be submitted in electronic form through the official website of the National House of Social Insurance (www.cnas.md), through the electronic service E-Application for Allowances Intended for Families with Children or to the local social insurance house at the place of residence or domicile or near one’s main workplace.

The paternity allowance is paid as a lump sum for the whole period through the agency of the designated payment service provider. The calculation basis of the allowance is 100% of the average monthly income that is determined by dividing the insured income earned at all the units where the applicant works to the number of month during which this was earned during the last three calendar months prior to the month of the child’s birth.

Employers, regardless of the type of ownership and legal organizational form, are obliged to present information about the work relations for setting the social rights in accordance with the form and way approved by the Ministry of Finance within ten workdays of the employment day or the modification/stopping of the labor relations and issuing of the order on the provision of childcare leave or paternity leave.