Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Article 26 establishes maternity benefit as a payment or periodical payments to an insured woman or the wife of an insured man, in the case of her confinement.
 

Maternity benefit shall be awarded to a woman who is an insured person, in respect of her pregnancy and confinement, payable for a period starting not earlier than six (6) weeks before the expected date of confinement and continuing until the expiration of thirteen (13) weeks. The weekly rate of maternity benefit shall be sixty five per centum (65%) of the sum of the insurable earnings or credits of the insured person in the thirty weeks specified in regulation 19 divided by thirty, and the daily rate shall be the weekly rate divided by six. Additionally, a woman is entitled to a grant of two hundred dollars ($200) if (a) she has given birth to a living child; and (b) she or her husband has contributed to the fund for at least twenty of the thirty weeks immediately preceding the week which she gave birth.

Modifies article 23 by increasing the Maternity Grant from $300 to $500.