Keeping employee’s social benefits during maternity leave

A FINCOM group employee had a question regarding the correctness of calculation of the allowance for child care up to 1.5 years made by the Social Insurance Fund. She went on maternity leave in 2023, gave birth to a baby in 2024.

Currently, all benefits are assigned and paid by the Social Insurance Fund (Federal Law of December 29, 2006 № 255-FZ), and employers provide data to the Fund. Going on maternity leave, FINCOM group employee doubted the calculations made by the Fund and turned to her colleagues for help.

According to current legislation, Item 1 Article 14 of 255-FZ, maternity leave allowance is calculated based on the last 2 years of employment. However, according to the provided norms (Article 14 of 255-FZ), this period may be replaced by an earlier one if the woman was on maternity leave before that.

When trying to make changes to the Social Insurance Fund’s automated system for calculating benefits, we encountered some difficulties.

After several unsuccessful attempts to change the automated calculation, FINCOM group experts had to contact the Social Insurance Fund directly, to send a request and monitor the recalculation process.

Due to the vast experience and high level of skills in effective communication with representatives of Social Insurance Fund, FINCOM group experts successfully handled increase of allowance for the employee.