Army service members who’ve just lately given delivery, adopted youngsters or positioned youngsters up for adoption now have 12 weeks of paid go away, the Division of Protection introduced Wednesday.

The transfer is an enlargement of the Army Parental Go away Program and applies to service members on energetic obligation for 12 months or extra.

The 12-week coverage applies to those that have given delivery, adoptive mother and father, non-birth mother and father and eligible foster mother and father.

Earlier insurance policies granted eligible mother and father and caregivers as much as three weeks or six weeks, stated Charlie Dietz, a spokesperson for the workplace of the Secretary of Protection.

Non-birth mother and father, adoptive mother and father and long-term foster mother and father had been included earlier than. Nonetheless, the brand new coverage will guarantee paternal go away stays separate from medical restoration go away, extending it much more, Dietz stated.



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