FAQ – Disability Women Employees – Special Allowance For Child Care

FAQ -ANSWERED BY DoPT

Whether the women employees with disabilities are entitled for special allowance for child care at double the rates for multiple births at the time of first child birth?

• No. In case of multiple births at the time of first child birth, the woman employee shall not be entitled to this allowance at double the rates for multiple births.

Whether the allowance would be admissible for the 3rd child in case either of the first two children i.e. first child or the 2nd child expires before the attaining the age of two years?

• It is clarified that the grant of Special Allowance for the child care for women with disabilities is admissible for two years from the birth of the child so long as the woman employee does not have more than two surviving children