Risk benefit during breast-feeding (self-employed women)

The risk benefit during breast-feeding is a contributory benefit within the protective action of Social Security that aims to compensate for the loss of income suffered by working women who are forced to interrupt their professional activity to avoid the risks that this poses to their health or that of their baby, while feeding them through breast-feeding.

Access to this benefit does not arise directly from the mere existence of risks in a professional activity, but when said risks can specifically affect the health of the woman, who is feeding her baby through breastfeeding, or that of her baby and cannot be avoided by taking preventive measures or changes in the way of carrying out the professional activity.

When the risks for the woman who is feeding her baby through breastfeeding cannot be avoided, and this is certified by her Mutual Fund, the self-employed worker may interrupt her professional activity and request risk benefit during breastfeeding.

First of all, when the woman, who is feeding her baby through natural breastfeeding, considers that in the exercise of her professional activity there are agents, procedures or working conditions that may negatively influence her health or that of her baby that are not avoidable by adopting preventive measures, she must request from the Mutual Fund a medical certificate that certifies these extremes.

From the moment the mutual insurance company issues the medical certificate, recognizing the existence of occupational risks that affect the health of the woman or her baby, it will decide the date from which it interrupts its professional activity.

Once your professional activity has been interrupted, you may apply to the Mutual Fund for risk benefit during breast-feeding from that moment on.