Industrial injuries disablement benefit / prepared by the Benefits Agency and the Central Office of Information.

  • Great Britain. Benefits Agency
Date:
1992
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Industrial injuries disablement benefit / prepared by the Benefits Agency and the Central Office of Information. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ® the accident happened in Great bri- tain. But you may still get benefit if: — you are a mariner, or airman or work on the continental shelf of the United Kingdom, another EC country or Norway, or —your employer is paying Class 1 National Insurance contributions for you while you are working out of the country, or — you are paying the special Class 2 contributions for volunteer develop- ment workers, or — if you work in one of the countries with which Great Britain has an agreement covering industrial injuries. What type of accident is covered An accident, for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit purposes, means any unintended happening or incident at work. You can only get benefit if the accident results in personal injury. It doesn’t matter whether the effect of the injury is immediate (for example, if you break your leg in a fall) or delayed (for example, a blow to the knee which eventually leads to severely impaired mobility). Generally, an accident which happens when you are at work is accepted as hav- ing happened as a result of your work, unless there is some evidence that this is notso. Whether or not you are considered to be at work at a particular time depends on the circumstances. For example, you cannot normally be regarded as being at work when you are travelling to or from work, but you may be if you are in trans- port provided by your employer. An accident can be treated as having hap- pened when you were at work and as a result of your work if it occurred: @ because you were doing something you were employed to do, or @ because your work put you at a special risk, or @ while you were helping in an emer- gency, for instance in rescue work at any premises used for your employer’s business. If you were doing something which your employer does not allow you to do or the rules for your job do not allow you to do, the accident may still be treated as having happened during, and as a result of, your work if what you were doing was done for the purpose of your employer’s business and was within the scope of your job. In some other unusual cases, such as sky- larking by workmates, an accident can be covered if it happens while you are at work and through no fault of your own. If you get a disease because of an accident at work and your disease is listed as an industrial disease, you may be able to get benefit under the rules for industrial dis- eases — see leaflet NI 2 If you have an industrial disease. If your disease results from an infection at work (e.g. Athletes Foot or Foot and Mouth disease), and that disease is not listed as a prescribed disease in leaflet NI 2, you may still be able to get benefit under the rules for industrial accidents. If you are not sure which rules apply to you, ask at your Social Security office. When to claim If you have had an accident, claim after you have been disabled by the accident for nine weeks. But if you think you have an industrial disease, claim straight away. Claim Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit no later than six months after the date of your accident or the date your disease started. If it is later, you may lose some benefit. This is because Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit can’t be back-dated more than three months before the date of your claim, unless you had reasonable cause for delaying your