ZUS consolidates eZUS benefit forms on 13 November, deletes drafts

From 13 November 2026 the eZUS portal moves to a consolidated set of short-term benefit forms.ZUS Forms Z-15a and Z-15b become a single Z-15, the wniosek o zasiłek opiekuńczy, the claim for care allowance.ZUS Forms ZAM, ZUR and ZAO become a single ZAM, the wniosek o zasiłek macierzyński, the claim for maternity allowance.ZUS Form Z-3b, the zaświadczenie płatnika składek, is withdrawn.ZUS Forms ZAS-53, Z-3, Z-3a, ZNp-7 and Z-10 are updated to match. Behind the switch sits a new benefit-information regulation in force since 24 October 2026ZUS, which replaces the 2015 regulation and redefines which forms establish entitlement.

The single Z-15 changes what the care-allowance claimant declares. Instead of answering whether the child's other parent works and whether that parent works shifts, the claimant states that no other household member can provide care during the period covered by the claim for zasiłek opiekuńczyZUS.

The single ZAM covers the maternity allowance across five leave periods: urlop macierzyński, leave on maternity-leave terms, urlop rodzicielski, supplementary maternity leave and urlop ojcowski.ZUS The claimant completes the part of the form that matches the leave concerned. Where ZUS itself pays the allowance, no abbreviated birth certificate of the child needs to be attachedZUS: ZUS retrieves the record from the child's name, PESEL number, date and place of birth and the parent's name and PESEL or identity-document number. Where the contribution payer disburses the allowance, the abbreviated birth certificate still has to be attached.ZUS Where a child is placed in foster care, the court order placing the child there, issued by way of security, can be attached to the maternity-allowance claim.

The withdrawn Z-3b needs no successor.ZUS People running a non-agricultural business, people cooperating with them, clergy paying their own insurance contributions and sailors no longer supply the payer's certificateZUS: ZUS decides entitlement on the benefit claim and the remaining documents.ZUS

The two channels run on different clocks. The new and updated forms have been available on www.zus.pl since 24 October 2026ZUS, while eZUS follows in mid-November 2026ZUS. Until the eZUS update, entitlement is decided on either basis: the previous forms still reachable on eZUS, or the new ones from www.zus.pl.ZUS

The eZUS cutover itself falls on Friday 13 November 2026.ZUS Between 15:00 and 18:30 none of the twelve affected forms — Z-15a, Z-15b, Z-15, ZAM, ZUR, ZAO, Z-3b, ZAS-53, Z-3, Z-3a, ZNp-7 and Z-10 — can be completed or sent through eZUS.ZUS At the same time ZUS removes from portal accounts every copy of those forms that was started but not finished or sent: drafts with dokument-roboczy status and anything sitting in the [Zlecenia] tab.ZUS The notice describes no transfer of draft contents onto the new versions.ZUS A deleted Z-15a or Z-15b draft corresponds to the new single Z-15, a deleted ZAM, ZUR or ZAO draft to the new single ZAM, and a deleted Z-3b draft has no replacement form.

Legal basis: Rozporządzenie Ministra Rodziny, Pracy i Polityki Społecznej z 27 września 2026 r. w sprawie zakresu informacji o okolicznościach mających wpływ na prawo do zasiłków z ubezpieczenia społecznego w razie choroby i macierzyństwa lub ich wysokość oraz dokumentów niezbędnych do przyznania i wypłaty zasiłków (Dz. U. poz. 1316)ZUS, in force from 24 October 2026ZUS, deployed on eZUS on 13 NovemberZUS 2026ZUS.