Maternity and parental benefits
The Maternity and Parental support system is regulated by the Maternity and Parental benefits Act for the purpose of protecting motherhood, nursing and raising the newborn child, equal distribution of rights and obligations of care between both parents and harmonization of family and work life
Beneficiaries of maternity and parental support
Maternity and parental support shall be granted to the mother and father of the child and other persons who, on the basis of a decision of the competent authority, exercise parental care, adoptive parent, guardian, foster parent or other natural person to whom the minor child has been entrusted with day-to-day care by a decision of the competent authority, under the conditions and in the manner laid down in THE CFP.I. RIGHTS OF EMPLOYED AND SELF-EMPLOYED PARENTS
1. maternity leave
2. paternity leave
3. parental leave
4. part-time work (during maternity and parental leave)
5. part-time work due to increased child care
6. breastfeeding break
7. leave of a pregnant worker or leave of a worker who has given birth or leave of a worker who is breastfeeding a child (it is obtained from the employer and the salary compensation is charged to the employer's funds)
8. free working day for pre-natal examination (realised in agreement with employer)
9. part-time leave or work for the care and care of children with developmental disabilities
10. termination of the employment relationship or activity on the basis of which the beneficiary acquired the status of insured person until the third year of life of the child
11. adoption leave
12. Second adoptive leave
13. child death leave
II. RIGHTS OF BENEFICIARIES GAINING OTHER INCOME, FARMERS OUTSIDE THE INCOME TAX SYSTEM, UNEMPLOYED BENEFICIARIES
- maternity and parental work-saving
- adoptive work-saving
- child death sparing
III. USER RIGHTS OUTSIDE THE OPERATING SYSTEM
(pension beneficiary, beneficiary of the right to occupational rehabilitation, beneficiary of the right to disability pension due to professional incapacity for work, person incapable of work, regular student or regular student and all other insured persons of the Croatian Health Insurance Fund who cannot exercise the right as an employed or self-employed parent, based on other income, as an unemployed parent, farmer, etc.)
- maternity and parental care for the child
- adoption care for a child
- care about the death of a child.
IV. FOSTER PARENTS 'RIGHTS
The foster parent of a minor child provided that he or she has the status of insured person in compulsory health insurance and if he or she lives with the child in a common household has the right to time support established by the CFP according to his or her employment legal status, but not the right to financial support.
V. ONE-OFF CASH SUPPORT FOR A NEWBORN CHILD
One-off cash support amounts to 70% of the budget base (EUR 309,01).
The beneficiary of one-off cash support for a newborn child is an employed or self-employed parent, a beneficiary who receives other income, a farmer outside the income or income tax system and an unemployed beneficiary provided that at the time of birth the child fulfils THE stipulated conditions UNDER the CFP.
Also, the condition is that the child for whose birth the right in question is sought:
- enrolled in the birth Registry
- registered as a member of their household
- health insured according to compulsory health insurance regulations
Detailed information regarding the exercise of the right to maternity and parental support for which the Croatian Health Insurance Fund is responsible can be found on its website under the link of maternity and parental support
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The Directorate and regional offices or regional departments of the Croatian Health Insurance Institute can be found at the contacts.