The weekly PFL benefit amount ranges from approximately 70 to 90 percent of the wages the employee earned in the highest quarter of the base period, depending on the employee’s income, and subject to a maximum weekly benefit amount.1 A table of specific benefit amounts based on earnings is the State Disability Insurance and Paid Family Leave Benefit Amounts form.

• State Disability Insurance and Paid Family Leave Benefit Amounts

An individual is eligible to receive benefits equal to one-seventh of their PFL weekly benefit amount for each full day during which they are unable to work while caring for a seriously ill or injured family member or bonding with a child within one year of the birth or placement of the child in connection with foster care or adoption. The maximum amount payable to an individual during any disability benefit period is eight times their weekly benefit amount, but not more than the total wages paid to the individual during their disability base period.2

The base period used for PFL benefits is the same as the base period used for SDI. For more information, see “SDI Benefits Base Period” on State Disability Insurance Benefit Payments.

No more than eight weeks of PFL benefits are paid within any 12-month period, meaning the 365 consecutive days that begin with the first day the individual establishes a valid claim for PFL benefits. Employees are not required to take all of their PFL benefits at one time.

Periods of leave for the same care recipient within a 12-month period, periods of disability for pregnancy and periods of leave for bonding associated with the birth of that child are each considered one disability benefit period.3

1. UI Code secs. 3301