Even more than 11,000 euros can reach the total benefits that a new working mother in the private sector receives and which are linked to the birth.
As the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security Panos Tsakloglou pointed out to Ertnews, during the previous four years the government extended the maternity allowance for salaried mothers in the private sector to 9 months and now extends the provision to freelancers, self-employed women and farmers.
The condition is that they are insurance aware. If they are not insurance aware, the respective platform pops up a message telling them “please either pay or settle your debt so you can receive maternity benefit”.
This is an insurance and not a welfare benefit. The self-employed pay a monthly contribution of 10 euros which previously only covered the risk of unemployment. We found that there was the fiscal space to cover the maternity allowance, which we did.
The allowance has two objectives. Firstly, to strengthen the family in a period in which it is really very useful for the mother or one of the parents to stay with the child and at the same time it facilitates women to participate in the labor market, it encourages families who want to have children to do so, reconciling work and family life. In total, the benefits that a new working mother in the private sector receives and are linked to the birth can reach or even exceed 11,000 euros.
