Price
Free
Execution deadline in working days
10
Recipient
Individual person
Receiving restrictions
-

Maternity benefit for the whole maternity leave is paid to the woman who:
• is an employee or self-employed, at the commencement of maternity leave;
• has been released from work or lost her self-employed status not earlier than 60 days before maternity leave;
• is released from work due to liquidation of the company not earlier than 210 days before maternity leave.

The first part of the benefit shall be paid for a maternity leave of 56 or 70 days, if the expectant mother has been registered in medical records until the 12th week of pregnancy. The second part of the benefit for 56 or 70 calendar days of the maternity leave shall be paid after childbirth.

Process description

  1. Service requests
    The allowance must be claimed within 6 months from the first day of maternity leave.
    In order to claim the benefit, a specific form of application addressed to the SAA must be completed.

    May submit a submission:
    • on the www.latvija.lv portal;
    • on-site (if requested for service, a personal identification document (passport or ID card) must be produced);
    • electronically (the application must be signed with a secure electronic signature containing the time stamp);
    • by post;
    • through the competent foreign authority.

    The e-supply to the www.latvija.lv portal may only be submitted if the sick-leave page B is registered in the electronically integrated electronic information system of the health sector.

    An application may be submitted in person to any VSAA customer service centre or to the unified customer service centres of the State and local governments.

    The submission shall indicate the preferred method of receiving the decision.

  2. Receipt of services
    A decision regarding the granting of a benefit may be received in person, by post, in the official electronic address or in the portal www.latvija.lv, in accordance with the type of receipt of the decision indicated in the application.

    The service shall be transferred to the account of the Latvian credit institution or postal settlement system (PNS) at the choice of the recipient.