Sso ( Social Security Office) Maternity Benefits

[ricowebzues]

Hi,

Me and my wife is both covered by SSO insurance now she is giving birth this month of Dec. We are registered in mission hospital here in phuket but we she will give birth in mission hospital in bangkok, is it possible to use the SSO card in bangkok with same hospital?

and as I check the SSO website they have this info about maternity benefit:

A female insured person

She will receive maternity benefit and cash benefit at the rate of 50% of wages for 90 days.

A male insured person

He will receive only maternity benefit for his wife with married certificate or the woman who cohabits publicly as husband and wife with the insured person according to the regulation prescribed by the Secretary-General.

Does this mean that aside from my wife I can also apply for some benefit?

Thanks in advance,

Mate

[TerryLH]

If your wife meets the requirements, I believe to get benefits at a hospital she is not registered at, she'd have to get a letter from her hospital authorizing her to use the other hospital. I also believe that then the second hospital will be payed from the money from the first hospital.

Hospitals get, up front, a set amount for each registered person.

Talk to the hospital she's registered at about this.

I don't think it will be different just because it's in the same 'chain'. You are registered at a specific hospital, not a 'group'.