Puerto Rico SINOT Temporary Disability and Maternity Paid Leave¶
Puerto Rico's Seguro por Incapacidad No Ocupacional Temporal (SINOT) provides wage-replacement benefits to insured workers who lose wages because of a non-work-related illness or injury, with related job-reservation protections. U.S. DOL also identifies Puerto Rico as having paid temporary disability and maternity leave laws.
Puerto Rico DTRH describes SINOT as a temporary non-occupational disability insurance program that pays benefits to insured workers who lose wages because of a disability caused by an illness or injury that is not work-related and not from an automobile accident. Eligibility requires being unable to work because of a covered non-work-related illness or injury, treatment by an authorized physician or chiropractor, and at least $150 in wages in insured employment during the base year. DTRH says the minimum weekly benefit is $12 and the maximum is $55 weekly for the agricultural phase and $113 weekly for the industrial phase, payable while disability lasts up to 26 weeks in a consecutive 52-week period. DTRH says SINOT includes job-reservation and employment-guarantee provisions for disabled workers and can cover pregnancy complications when other SINOT requirements are met. U.S. DOL's paid-leave landscape identifies Puerto Rico as having paid temporary disability and maternity leave laws, but this record should not be interpreted as a paid family caregiving leave program for caring for another person.