Impact of Paid Family and Medical Leave in Maryland
This brief estimates of benefits, costs, interactions with other mean-tested programs, and impact on poverty.
This analysis was conducted for Maryland’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program as part of the Department of Labor (DOL) Women’s Bureau study, “Understanding Equity in Paid Leave through Microsimulation.”
Using an enhanced version of the Department of Labor’s Worker Paid Leave Usage Simulation (Worker PLUS) model, in concert with the Urban Institute’s Analysis of Taxes, Transfers and Income Security (ATTIS) model, 2 we examine the following questions:
- How much would workers have received in benefits, and how would they have been distributed by demographic group and benefit type under the Maryland FAMLI program?
- Would benefits under the FAMLI program have reduced poverty overall and for families who took benefits? By how much? How would taxes and participation in other safety net programs have been affected?
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