DB1 - A guide to Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefits (April 2008)
Contents
- Abbreviations
- About this guide
- Introduction to the Industrial Injuries Scheme
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
- Industrial accidents (IA)
- Prescribed diseases (PD)
- Introduction to prescribed diseases
- Which diseases are prescribed
- Questions arising on a prescribed diseases claim
- Making a benefit claim for a prescribed disease
- The decision on your claim for PD
- Payment of benefit PD
- Effects of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit for prescribed diseases on other benefits
- Constant Attendance Allowance (CAA)
- Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance (ESDA)
- Reduced Earnings Allowance (REA)
- Retirement Allowance (RA)
- Industrial Death Benefit (IDB)
- Accidents and diseases before 5 July 1948 – Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme (WCSS)
- Diseases before 5 July
1948 – Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit
Scheme (PBMDBS)
- Conditions of entitlement to PBMDBS
- How and when to claim PBMDBS
- How claims for PBMDBS are decided
- About the medical examination
- The decision on your claim for PBMDBS
- How much PBMDBS benefit you will get
- How you are paid PBMDBS
- If your circumstances change (PBMDBS)
- Other benefits you may be entitled to (PBMDBS)
- Unemployability Supplement (US)
- Additional payment for people whose employer has gone out of business
- Further information
- Appendix 1: List of diseases covered by Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
- Appendix 2: Prescribed degrees of disablement
- Appendix 3: Diseases and jobs covered by the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme