Changes to the maternity benefit enable thousands of insured women to establish eligibility, as insurance time from different funds (successive insurance) now counts toward completing the required 200 days of insurance coverage.
With this regulation, women who have worked in more than one sector – for example as employees and then as freelancers or with changes between funds – can combine their insurance contributions, instead of needing the 200 days to come from a single fund.
Maternity benefit changes: Retroactive payments and resubmission of applications
According to a relevant circular from e-EFKA, the provision also covers retroactively applications submitted from January 1, 2025, that were rejected because the required contributions were not completed with one fund. Applications can be resubmitted within six (6) months from the law’s publication, while their results date back to the time of the original application.
For benefit approval, 200 days of insurance are required within the two-year period before the expected or actual delivery date. Now, these days can be calculated cumulatively from different funds that have been integrated into e-EFKA. The benefit is paid for 119 days total: 56 days before delivery and 63 days after.
Applications are submitted exclusively electronically through the e-EFKA platform, in the maternity benefit service, with a deadline of up to 8 months after delivery, along with the required supporting documents.
