SA29. Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
Benefits
19. Benefits for accidents at work and for occupational diseases
If you are bereaved and your spouse or civil partner died because of an accident at work or from one of the industrial diseases on the official list, you may be able to get bereavement benefits. This applies even if you don't meet the insurance rules for bereavement benefits.
If you are disabled or cannot work because of an accident at work or because you have one of the industrial diseases on the official list, you may be able to get Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit. The Pension Service will tell you more.
If you worked in two or more EEA countries in a job which gave you one of the industrial diseases on the official list, you will only get benefit from the country where you were working last in the job that gave you the disease. Note – This does not apply if you have pneumoconiosis. There are special rules for this.
If your disease gets worse and you are getting, or if you used to get, benefit from an EEA country, that country will usually pay you any extra benefit that you may be able to have. You will need to have a further medical assessment.
If you are getting benefit from one EEA country and you are now doing the same job that gave you the same disease, but in a different EEA country, the first country will not pay you any extra benefit. Instead, the second country will pay you benefit, and they will use their own rules to decide how much you should get. They will look at how much worse your disease has become.