A group of women in New York is vowing to keep up the fight to get a bill through the New York State legislature allowing women who suffer a stillbirth to receive paid family leave.
Kristin Thorne investigates why the bill is stalled to allow paid family leave for mothers of stillborn babies in New York.through the New York State legislature allowing women who suffer a stillbirth to receive paid family leave, after the bill stalled just before the legislature's summer recess.
Mothers of stillborn babies are permitted to use disability to pay for their time off from work to recover, but weekly disability payments are only allowed up to $170 compared to the maximum $1,131 offered under New York State Paid Family Leave. Eyewitness News obtained a letter sent from the Life Insurance Council of New York to the legislature in January urging legislators not to incorporate stillbirth into the PFL program.
"The very next day I received a call from my current employer stating that New York had reached out to let me know that my previously approved paid family leave application was being revoked because the baby had died," Perrone said. "It's not just being compassionate or giving bereavement time," she said. "It's about improving maternal health and outcomes."
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