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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    15 weeks (90 days) after the date of your accident or the date your disease started (see page 3). When you make your claim you must give the Social Security office full details of your accident. It will then be looked into and a decision given as to whether it was an industrial accident for the purposes of the scheme. If you had an accident or got an industrial disease before 6 April 1983 different rules apply. Ask at your Social Security office for more information. How to claim You can get the appropriate form from any Social Security office. You can get the address of your nearest Social Security office from the post office or Unemploy- ment Benefit office or by looking in the phone book under SOCIAL SECURITY, Dept of, or BENEFITS AGENCY. You will need one of the following forms: Accidents — form BI 100A. Pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, diffuse mesothelioma, lung cancer (when accompanied by asbestosis or bilateral pleural thickening) and bilateral pleural thickening — BI 100(Pn). Occupational deafness — BI 100 OD. Occupational asthma — BI 100 OA. Other industrial diseases — BI 100 B. Complete the form and return it to your Social Security office. The staff there can help you fill it in if you wish. How your disablement is worked out If it has been decided that you have had an industrial accident or have got an industrial disease, you will be asked to attend for a medical examination. This will be carried out by one or two independent doctors. They will decide whether you have suf- fered a loss of faculty as a result of the amount of your disablement and how long it will last. What is loss of faculty? Loss of physical or mental faculty means some loss of power or function of an organ of the body: this includes disfigure- ment even when this causes no bodily handicap. Whether loss of faculty results in disability is decided by comparing your condition as a result of the accident or disease with the condition of a normal healthy person of the same age and sex. Your disablement is shown as a percen- tage up to 100 per cent. You will not normally get benefit if your disablement is less than 14 per cent. But you may be © able to get Industrial Injuries Disable- ment Benefit if: @ you have had more than one accident or disease and your total disablement is 14 per cent or more, or ® you are found to be suffering from one of the prescribed respiratory diseases (pneumoconiosis, byssinosis or diffuse mesothelioma) and disable- ment is one per cent or more. The decision takes no account of factors other than the physical or mental condi- tion of the injured person. So the basic Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit is not affected by what type of job you do or any loss of earnings. It can be paid whether or not you have returned to work and it does not depend on your earnings. Loss of earnings and other circumstances may, however, mean you can get one or more of the benefits described on pages 8-12. About the medical examination If you can travel you will be told when and where to go for the examination. You will be told what out-of-pocket expenses you can claim. If it is decided that you are not fit to travel alone, you will be able to claim for someone to travel with