Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Quarterly Statistics: December 2002
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
People who are disabled because of an industrial accident or prescribed industrial disease may be able to get Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit.
The customer cannot normally get IIDB until 90 days (excluding Sundays) after the date of the accident or the date they started to suffer from the prescribed disease.
To get the basic benefit the customer needs a medical assessment of the degree of their disability caused by the injury or disease. This is expressed as a percentage. A customer who claimed IIDB before 1 October 1986 and was assessed as being between 1% and 19% disabled normally got a lump sum gratuity. How much they got depended on the degree of their disability and the period of assessment. Since 1 October 1986 any claim resulting in an assessment of less than 14% disabled does not normally attract benefit, unless the disability is caused by pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, or diffuse mesothelioma. If a customer claims benefit for more than one industrial accident or disease the assessments may be added together and benefit awarded on the total.
If a customer is assessed as being 14% disabled or more, they will be paid a weekly disablement pension. How much they get depends on the percentage of their disability. If they are assessed as being 14% to 19% disabled, they are paid at the 20% rate. If they are assessed as over 20% disabled their assessments are rounded up or down to the nearest 10%. For example 34% would be rounded down to 30%, and 35% would be rounded up to 40%. Benefit can only be paid in respect of occupational deafness if the assessment is 20% or more.
The customer’s occupation or any loss of earnings are not taken into account in the assessment of their disability, but they may get allowances added to their basic benefit . If the customer is entitled to other Social Security benefits, these will be paid as well as IIDB.
- Background (54KB)
Contents
Section 1 - New claims
| Table 1.1: | Summary tables of new claims |
| Table 1.2: | New claims notified in quarter 4, 2002 by cause, Government Office Region and population |
Section 2 - All prescribed diseases, first diagnosed assessments
| Table 2.1: | Summary tables of first diagnosed assessments |
| Table 2.2: | All prescribed diseases, first diagnosed assessments in quarter 4, 2002 by percentage assessment and sex |
| Table 2.3: | All prescribed diseases, first diagnosed assessments in quarter 4, 2002 by disease number and sex |
| Table 2.4: | All prescribed diseases, first diagnosed assessments in quarter 4, 2002 by sex and age |
| Table 2.5: | All prescribed diseases, first diagnosed assessments in quarter 4, 2002 by occupation and sex |
| Table 2.6: | All prescribed diseases, first diagnosed assessments in quarter 4, 2002 by occupation and disease |
Tables
- All tables in Microsoft Excel format (1.26Mb)
