When you choose the intermittent leave option for your FAMLI claim, you will need a certification from your health care provider for the number of leave hours you can take during a reporting period. This recommendation is called the Absence Parameters, and you can find it on the Serious Health Condition form your health care provider filled out.
When your health care provider certifies the necessary amount of absence hours you may need based on your diagnosis or serious health condition, remember to discuss your typical work week schedule. This will help the health care provider to give you the absence parameters that will best suit your medical condition. Health care providers can certify leave hours using a 7-day period or a rolling 30-day period, but not both.
Once your claim is approved, you, the claimant, will receive a task to report the previous week's leave hours. This task will remain available to you Sunday through Tuesday. You will report your hours weekly in My FAMLI+. The calculation used by the system to approve your reported absence or leave hours will be based on the health care provider's recommendation on your Serious Health Condition form.
If your health care provider selected the 30-day Absence Parameters option, My FAMI+ will calculate a running total of your leave hours based on the 30-day period prior to the day for which you are reporting leave. You can’t report more leave hours in any 30-day period than your approved Absence Parameters allow. Remember, the lookback period for your Absence Parameters changes every day and as leave hours are reported more than 30 days prior to that specific date, they are excluded from the calculation.
If during your intermittent leave you find that you need more time than your Absence Parameter limit allows, you will need to end your existing claim and file a new one with FAMLI.
Contact your health care provider and talk to them about your leave needs, so that they can certify more leave hours on a new Serious Health Condition Form, and you can get started on your new claim as soon as possible.
