Maternity - Equity grants

The National Insurance Institute may give equity grants - according to criteria, rules and amounts determined in the regulations - to a self-employed worker whose claim for a maternity allowance or risk pregnancy benefit was rejected due to arrears in payment of insurance contributions, and to a woman whose claim for a birth grant was rejected because she was not hospitalized for the birth.

The equity grant will be given instead of the risk pregnancy benefit or the maternity allowance or the birth grant, and eligibility will be examined according to the principles of equity determined in the regulations. For the application form - click here.