September 12, 2026

Section 64 – Payment of medical bonus | Code on Social Security, 2020

Chapter VI – Maternity Benefit

64. Payment of medical bonus

Every woman entitled to maternity benefit under this Chapter shall also be entitled to receive from her employer a medical bonus of three thousand five hundred rupees or such amount as may be notified by the Central Government, if no pre-natal confinement and post-natal care is provided for by the employer free of charge.