FORM 18 ESIC MATERNITY BENEFIT

If you are an ESI-covered employee, you should seek treatment at an ESI hospital to avail benefits such as leave. If the facilities at the ESI hospital are inadequate, you may be referred to a private hospital. However, you cannot directly go to a private hospit...

To be eligible for maternity benefit, the insured woman should have contributed for not less than seventy days in the immediately preceding two consecutive contribution periods prior to the actual or expected date of confinement, as the case may be.For entitleme...

Dear all,I joined a company with a CTC of 150004, but I have now received an increment. So, my CTC will be more than my previous CTC (i.e., 150004). For the last 18 months, ESI was deducted from my salary, and now I am unsure if I can avail of the benefits of ES...

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If the delivery takes place in the benefit period, naturally, she can get super specialty treatment for a maternity case as well. However, for that to happen, she should be referred to a Specialty Hospital by the Medical Officer of the ESIC. It is not the case t...

Dear member,If a woman is covered under the ESI Act, 1948, and is eligible for the benefits under the said Act, then she is not entitled to maternity benefits under the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961\. Please refer to section 61 of the ESI Act, 1948, as well as sec...

After the amendment in ESI (Central) Rules, 1950 relating to the enhancement of Maternity Benefit, ESIC has issued instructions on the above subject via their circular dated 06/02/2017\. The online link to the same is mentioned as follows for the kind informatio...