Document No (18) 2002 Issued by Welfare & Benefits Division Of Shanghai Municipal Labour & Social Security Bureau, April 27, 2002 The Concerned Commissions, Offices, Bureaus, State Holding (Group) Corporations, The Municipal Settlement & Administration Center for Social Insurance Funds, The District & County Labour & Social Security Bureaus and Personnel Bureaus, The District & County Administration Centers for Social Insurance Funds: In order to better implement the “The Provisions of Shanghai Urban Maternity Insurance” (hereinafter as the Provisions), the Circular on Some Issues in Implementing “The Provisions of Shanghai Urban Maternity Insurance” is as the followings, 1. During the period that the maternal women receive Maternity Living Allowances according to the Provisions, the concerned employer shall not pay wages within the same period. While under the circumstances that the concerned women’s average monthly wages in the previous year exceed three times the employees’ average monthly wages of the Municipality in the same period, and the surplus part are not included in the social insurance contribution base, so that the Maternity Living Allowances received are lower than the due wages for the same period, the balance shall be made by the concerned employers in the form of Maternity Living Allowances. 2. In case that the concerned women have delivered birth in Provinces or Municipalities other than Shanghai and have met the requirements of the Provisions, a delivery report and birth certificate by the relevant local hospitals at or above county level shall be provided when claiming for Maternity Benefits. 3. For the maternal women who are not permanent residents of Shanghai and have met the requirements of the Provisions, a family-planning certificate by the Family-Planning Authorities in the regions of their permanent residence, as well as the confirmation document of family-planing for Maternity Benefits by the Family-Planning Authorities in their current residing communities or townships shall be provided to relevant Social Insurance Administrations when claiming for Maternity Benefits. 4. In case of death of maternal women during laboring or miscarriage (The medical documentation is required), the Maternal Medicare Subsidies and Living Allowances shall still be distributed and the latter shall be distributed till the month of death. 5. In case that the maternal women receive Maternity Benefits standardized the Minimum Monthly Wages of the Municipality, and it happens that the Minimum Monthly Wages in the Municipality is adjusted at this time, then the monthly Maternity living Allowances shall be calculated in light of the newly adjusted Municipal Minimum Monthly Wages. 6. The employers and the concerned maternal women shall make their due social insurance contributions during the maternity period according to relevant laws and regulations. While the maternity period under which the concerned women receiving Maternity Benefits shall be excluded when defining the monthly individual social insurance contribution bases by the concerned employers for the next year. 7. This circular shall become effective as of November 1, 2001.