Shortly afterwards, the minister of work Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk in an interview with our editors announced that the ministry was working on legal changes in this matter, and the problem itself called “cruel absurdity”. – Our initial proposal assumes that a medical certificate would be enough to exercise the rights after losing pregnancy. It would not be necessary to determine the sex or a number of other formalities – she said at the time.
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Vacation and funeral allowance after miscarriage. Conditions
Today, announcements have become a fact. From August 6, 2025, the right to shortened leave after miscarriage and funeral allowance in the event that a birth certificate has not been prepared, will be entitled on the basis of a dead birth certificate issued on the basis of medical documentation.
This document will be able to issue a specialist in the field of gynecology and obstetrics, a doctor during specialization in this field or a midwife – regardless of the duration of pregnancy and without having to determine the sex. In the case of a funeral allowance, it will also be possible to present a death card.
Regulations on this matter, which at the end of July was signed by the Minister of Work Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, began to apply today.
Until now, the law applied to women after losing a dramatic obligation to learn about the sex of a child, without whom it was impossible to register the so -called dead birth cards. The lack of a document excluded from the right to a 56-day, fully paid, voluntary maternity leave and funeral allowance.
In practice, this meant the need to perform expensive, often ambiguous and hard to reach genetic tests.
