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How do I apply for pregnancy benefit?

What is a pregnancy benefit?

The pregnancy benefit is provided to a pregnant woman who is insured for sickness with the Social Insurance Agency. Note: The pregnancy benefit is not the pregnancy scholarship provided by schools to pregnant students.

Am I eligible for pregnancy benefit?

Entitlement to the pregnancy benefit applies to a pregnant:

  • an employee,
  • a self-employed person who is compulsorily insured for sickness,
  • a voluntarily sickness-insured person,
  • an insured person whose entitlement to the pregnancy benefit arises after the end of the sickness insurance within the protection period, or
  • an insured person whose compulsory insurance is suspended due to taking parental leave (employee) or receiving a parental benefit (self-employed person).

What requirements do I have to meet?

You are entitled to the benefit if you meet the following conditions:

  • you are pregnant,
  • as of the beginning of the 27th week before the expected date of childbirth:
    • you are insured for sickness, or
    • you are within the protection period after your insurance ended, or
    • you are an employee whose compulsory sickness insurance was suspended due to taking parental leave on the day the reason for providing the pregnancy benefit arose, or
    • you are a self-employed person whose compulsory sickness insurance was suspended due to the entitlement to parental benefit on the day the reason for providing the pregnancy benefit arose, and
  • you have at least 270 days of sickness insurance in the last two years before the reason for providing the pregnancy benefit arose. For these purposes, the following is also included:
    • the period of any previous terminated sickness insurance
    • the period of suspension of the employee's compulsory sickness insurance due to taking parental leave and
    • the period of suspension of the self-employed person's compulsory sickness insurance due to entitlement to a parental benefit.
    • The period of the employee's sickness insurance during which the employee had no assessment base for paying sickness insurance contributions because they had no income - including the period of insurance suspension - is not included in the 270 days of sickness insurance. However, other periods excluded from the decisive period are counted (e.g., the duration of temporary incapacity for work).
  • if you are a self-employed person or a voluntarily sickness-insured person and you have paid your sickness insurance contributions on time and in the correct amount (see Condition of payment of sickness insurance contributions (SK)). For an employee, this condition is not monitored.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

If you claim the pregnancy benefit from multiple sickness insurance policies, you must meet the stated conditions for each of them.

How do I apply for the pregnancy benefit? (if your doctor does not record the expected date of childbirth in the electronic pregnancy book)

If your doctor does not record the expected date of childbirth in the electronic pregnancy book, during the transition period they will issue you the "Application for Pregnancy Benefit" form, the procedure for applying for pregnancy benefit is as follows:

1

Visit a doctor (gynaecologist)

who will issue an ‘Application for Pregnancy Benefit’. The doctor will issue this application at the first preventive check-up at the beginning of the second trimester, after reaching the 13th week of pregnancy, as eligibility for the pregnancy benefit applies only to women whose pregnancy has not been ended by the beginning of the 27th week before the expected childbirth date.

The doctor will confirm the expected date of your childbirth on request form.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: If you are claiming pregnancy benefit from multiple sickness insurance policies (for example, as an employee and also as a self-employed person), your doctor will issue and confirm a separate application for each of them. You do not submit the application to the employer, as the employer does not confirm any data on it.

2

Fill in and sign the ‘Declaration of the Insured’

on the second page of the application.

3

You can submit the application

  • Electronically

    Via the eServices portal: You can use the service after logging into your Insuree’s Electronic Account, clicking on the link, and filling in the form here: Submitting an Application for Pregnancy Benefit (SK).

    To use the service and sign the form, a repeated login is required upon the prompt of the e-Services.

  • In writing

    You can submit the application to the Social Insurance Agency branch relevant according to:

    • the registered office of your employer, if you are an employee, or
    • the registered office of your last employer, if you are an employee within the protection period,
    • your permanent residence, if you are self-employed person or a voluntarily sickness-insured person.

Do I have any obligations even after the end of my pregnancy?

Yes, after the end of your pregnancy, you are required to submit—either electronically or in writing—a notification of the end of pregnancy or a notification of change in facts decisive for the entitlement to sickness benefit and its amount — PREGNANCY BENEFIT, accompanied by a doctor's confirmation of the end of pregnancy or another document proving the end of pregnancy in the following cases:

  • if the pregnancy was terminated other than by childbirth within the territory of the Slovak Republic and you have expressed written disagreement with the provision of personal data regarding the pregnancy to public authorities,
  • if the pregnancy was terminated outside the territory of the Slovak Republic, or
  • if you are a foreign national.

You can notify the end of pregnancy either electronically or in writing:

GOOD TO KNOW:

We recommend that you submit the application for pregnancy benefit immediately after it is issued by the doctor (see Statute of Limitations (SK)).

How do I apply for the pregnancy benefit from 1 August, 2026 (if your doctor records the expected date of childbirth in the electronic pregnancy book)

If your doctor records the expected date of childbirth in the electronic pregnancy book, you do not submit an application for pregnancy benefit (from 1 August, 2026).

1

You are automatically entitled to the pregnancy benefit; you do not submit an application for pregnancy benefit

Visit your gynaecologist, who will confirm the expected date of childbirth in your electronic pregnancy book. Information about your pregnancy, especially the expected date of childbirth, including any changes or the date of pregnancy termination, will be transferred to the Social Insurance Agency's information system no earlier than the last day of the eleventh week of pregnancy. The only exception is if your doctor detects the pregnancy later (in which case the data will be transferred on the day it is recorded).
Based on the received electronic record of the expected date of childbirth, the Social Insurance Agency will proactively (without an application from the insured person) initiate proceedings regarding the entitlement to pregnancy benefit from all active sickness insurance policies of the insured person and protection periods existing as of the day the reason for providing the pregnancy benefit arises (on the first day of the 27th week before the expected date of childbirth).
The information will be available in your Insuree’s Electronic Account.

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When it is necessary for you to apply for the pregnancy benefit by submitting the ‘Application for Pregnancy Benefit’ form

  • If you have expressed to the respective doctor a written disagreement with the transmission of your pregnancy data to third parties (public authorities) no later than by the beginning of the 11th week of pregnancy or upon the creation of the electronic pregnancy book, and you wish to apply for the pregnancy benefit, you must submit a benefit application, as in this case, the proceedings will not begin proactively. You can withdraw your disagreement at any time during the pregnancy. After its withdrawal, the pregnancy data will be transferred to the information system of the Social Insurance Agency. Until the disagreement is withdrawn, you must also report any changes regarding the expected due date or, if applicable, the termination of pregnancy to the Social Insurance Agency.
  • If your pregnancy was confirmed by a physician outside the territory of the Slovak Republic.

You can submit the application either electronically or in writing:

  • Electronically

    Via the eServices portal: You can use the service after logging into your Insuree’s Electronic Account, clicking on the link, and filling in the form here: Submitting an Application for Pregnancy Benefit (SK).

    To use the service and sign the form, a repeated login is required upon the prompt of the e-Services.

  • In writing

    You can submit the application to the Social Insurance Agency branch relevant according to:

    • the registered office of your employer, if you are an employee, or
    • the registered office of your last employer, if you are an employee within the protection period,
    • your permanent residence, if you are self-employed person or a voluntarily sickness-insured person.

If you submit your Application for Pregnancy Benefit via a web form and you want to claim the entitlement from multiple sickness insurance policies, you must submit this application for each insurance relationship separately. When submitting the application electronically, you submit only one application indicating all insurance relationships from which you request the benefit entitlement.

Do I have any obligations even after the end of my pregnancy?

Yes, after the end of your pregnancy, you are required to submit—either electronically or in writing—a notification of the end of pregnancy or a notification of change in facts decisive for the entitlement to sickness benefit and its amount — PREGNANCY BENEFIT, accompanied by a doctor's confirmation of the end of pregnancy or another document proving the end of pregnancy in the following cases:

  • if the pregnancy was terminated other than by childbirth within the territory of the Slovak Republic and you have expressed written disagreement with the provision of personal data regarding the pregnancy to public authorities,
  • if the pregnancy was terminated outside the territory of the Slovak Republic, or
  • if you are a foreign national.

You can notify the end of pregnancy either electronically or in writing:

For more information, please see SICKNESS INSURANCE – PREGNANCY BENEFIT (SK).