I hope this has enough information you need to feel confident in filing your claim. It’s completely up to you, you just have to claim it within one year. You also have the option to claim it later, break it up, or claim it as soon as your baby is born. If done at the right timing, you can collect up to 16 weeks of paid benefits (18 if you had a c-section).įATHERS! You can also qualify for Paid Family Leave / Bonding Time (6 weeks of paid benefits) if you’ve paid into SDI. – Whatever you choose, you have to submit the form after your SDI claim ends to let them know. As long as it’s within the next 12 months. Or, you can opt to break it up (3 weeks now, the other 3 weeks a few months from now), or all 6 weeks later. What this means is that you can either claim another 6 weeks of paid benefits right after SDI, which will just continue paying you for another 6 weeks. – This PFL claim form will give you the options to either collect your benefits now, or break it up into different periods, or claim the whole thing later. Bonding Time is another 6 weeks of paid benefits. Your PFL claim will not be active until you submit this form. – Fill out this form once you have finished your 6 or 8 weeks Recovery Time. This form is to transition into your Paid Family Leave (PFL) claim aka “Bonding Time”. – Once your “RecoveryTime” for SDI is nearing its end, EDD will automatically send you another form in your inbox. (Continues after SDI claim ends, but you must fill the form out) Your doctor will not jeopardize their job by sending off a false information to the state. If it’s not medically necessary but you honestly feel like you need more time, talk to your employer, not your doctor. This doesn’t mean you should go asking your doctor for any excuse to extend your leave. If that’s the case, they need to file an extension on their end (you give them your claim number and they certify and send it off on their end). During your postpartum checkups, your doctor will determine if you need more disability time. Six if you gave birth vaginally and eight if you gave birth via c-section. Recovery time is either 6 weeks or 8 weeks. – Now your “Recovery Time” will start once the date of birth has been reported. EDD will send you a form in your inbox that you fill out basically stating what day you gave birth. ![]() (This doesn’t need to be the moment your baby is born, you can do it when you get home a few days later). – When you give birth, you need to report to EDD that your baby has been born. – So once your 4 weeks has started, you don’t need to do anything else online until you give birth. Many employers (I feel) are more flexible and will give you the time you need if you ask for it. Remember, by law, they have to hold your position/title for 12 weeks (if there are 50 or more employees in the company). – This would be a good time to speak with your employer, if you haven’t already started your pregnancy leave, to decide how much time you want to take off before and after birth. So your pay will start from the 8th day of your claim. – There is a 7 day waiting period once you file, non-paid. You must apply exactly 4 weeks before your due date- Any earlier, it won’t work, and any later, you lose out on those days. If you don’t apply on time to utilize these 4 weeks, you don’t get an extra 4 weeks afterwards. – Apply 4 weeks before your due date! This is a “use it, or lose it” benefit period. You don’t send any pay stubs in, they automatically check by how much you’ve paid into SDI on your paychecks. The amount is usually 60-70% of your regular pay, and will depend on your earnings that you made the last quarter. Now, if you live in CALIFORNIA, we have what’s Paid Family Leave (PFL) and State Disability Insurance (SDI), two really important programs that offer you (an expecting mother) paid time off, before and after you give birth. If you live in the US, we have what’s called the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which protects your job for 12 weeks (if your employer has 50 employees or more. ![]() ![]() Hopefully this post will be of some help to you, as I try to answer all the questions that I once had when I filed. You ask yourself, okay how do I get started? Which website do I go to? What information do I need to provide? How will I know how much I will get? What if I miss a step and don’t get my money? The list goes on. But I figured I’d make a separate post just for this topic, since it’s such an important subject to cover.įiling for EDD Pregnancy Disability Leave, (State Disability Leave – SDI), and Family Medical Leave (FML) can be such a daunting task. I already posted all of this in my Not-So-Common TIPS for Expecting Parents post, which you can read here or by clicking the link at the bottom of this post.
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