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Nursing allowance (colloquially known as “milk money”) is a lump-sum payment made to nursing mother or to uninsured breastfeeding spouse of a male insurance holder to help them to feed their infants.
Allowance, arranged in Article 16 of Social Insurance and Universal Health insurance Law No. 5510, shall be paid for each newborn, provided that the newborn lives.
Nursing allowance is a lump sum paid for per baby, (i.e. it is not paid monthly) and the amount is 112 TL for 2015.
WHO ARE TO BENEFIT FROM NURSING ALLOWANCE
- Nursing mothers and uninsured breastfeeding wife of a male workers whether employed under a service contract or working for their own name and account,
- Female insurance holder receiving income or pension or the spouse of male insurance holder receiving income or pension due to own works.
- If, among the insurance holders who are granted with the right to receive nursing benefit, the individuals whose insurance status is terminated, have children within three hundred days starting from this date, then female insurance holder or male insurance holder whose spouse will benefit from maternity insurance shall receive nursing benefit.
ENTITLEMENT
- In order to be entitled nursing allowance;
- for the individuals who are employed by one or more employer through a service contract, the minimum 120 days short term insurance branches premium must have been notified within one year prior to birth,
- for the village and quarter headmen and individuals working on his/her own name and account, minimum 120 days short term insurance branches premium must have been paid within one year before the birth and paying any kind of debts related with premiums, are obligatory.
- for those whose insurance status is terminated as described above, minimum 120 days premium must have been paid within fifteen months before the date of birth.
FULL TRANSLATION of THE RELATED ARTICLE
Article 16 of Social Insurance and Universal Health insurance Law No. 5510 reads as follows;
“Nursing benefit applicable by the date of delivery, over the tariff determined by the Board of Directors of the Institution and approved by the Minister, shall be payable from the maternity insurance to the female insurance holder or to the male insurance holder due to his not insured spouse giving birth, and, among the insurance holders under item (a) (Who are employed by one or more employer through a service contract), and (b) (The village and quarter headmen and individuals working on his/her own name and account without being bound by a service contract) of paragraph one of Article 4 of this Law, to the female insurance holder receiving income or pension or to the spouse of male insurance holder receiving income or pension due to own works, for each newborn, provided that the newborn lives. In order to pay nursing benefit to a female insurance holder or to male insurance holder due to his spouse giving birth;
a) for the individuals who are employed by one or more employer through a service contract, notifying the minimum 120 days short term insurance branches premium within one year before the birth,
b) for the village and quarter headmen and individuals working on his/her own name and account without being bound by a service contract, depositing minimum 120 days short term insurance branches premium within one year before the birth and paying any kind of debts related with premiums, are obligatory.
If, among the insurance holders who are granted with the right to receive nursing benefit, the individuals whose insurance status is terminated as per Article 9 have children within three hundred days starting from this date, then female insurance holder or male insurance holder whose spouse will benefit from maternity insurance shall receive nursing benefit, provided that minimum 120 days premium is paid within fifteen months before the date of birth.”
