Massachusetts Announces Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Rates and Benefit Cap for 2025
· Oct 3, 2024
This Alert is relevant to employers with one or more employees in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (DFML) has the PFML contribution and maximum benefit rates for 2025. In welcome news, the rates will remain the same as 2024 rates.
Like 2024, beginning in January 2025, employers with 25 or more covered individuals who pay into the public PFML plan must send the department a contribution of 0.88% of covered employees’ eligible wage.
The contribution is apportioned between family leave and medical leave, with 0.70% going to medical leave and the remaining 0.18% going to family leave. Employers may withhold the following amounts from covered employees’ wages:
Employers are responsible for contributing the remaining 60% of the medical leave contribution (0.42% of wages).
Employers with fewer than 25 covered individuals must send an effective contribution rate of 0.46% of eligible wages. This contribution rate is less because small employers are not required to pay the employer’s share of the medical leave contribution.
Beginning in January 2025, the maximum total amount a covered employee will be allowed to receive in PFML benefits is $1,170.64Â per week, up from $1,149.90 in 2024. The rate is based on the state average weekly wage.
2025 Poster and Employee Notices:
Employers will be required to update their posters and notify employees of the rate increase by December 1, 2024. We will send out an Alert with the updated poster and notices when they are released by the DFML.
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