DB1 – A guide to Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefits (August 2009)

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Contents

• Abbreviations
• About this guide
  • This guide and the law
• Introduction to the Industrial Injuries Scheme
  • If you cannot act for yourself
  • If someone who was disabled because of an accident at work or a prescribed disease dies
• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
  • Eligibility
  • How to claim Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
• Industrial accidents (IA)
  • Notification of accident
  • Accident declarations
  • The accident declaration decision
  • Making a benefit claim for an industrial accident
  • The decision on your claim for IA
  • Payment of IA benefit
  • Effects of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit on other benefits
• 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)
  • Conditions of entitlement to CAA
  • How and when to claim CAA
  • How claims for CAA are decided
  • The decision on your CAA claim
  • How much CAA benefit you will get
  • How you are paid CAA
  • If your circumstances change
  • Effects of CAA on other benefits
• Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance (ESDA)
  • How claims for ESDA are decided
  • The decision on your ESDA claim
  • How you are paid ESDA
  • If your circumstances change (ESDA)
  • Effects of ESDA on other benefits
• Reduced Earnings Allowance (REA)
  • Conditions of entitlement to REA
  • How and when to claim REA
  • How claims for REA are decided
  • The decision on your REA claim
  • How much REA benefit you will get
  • How you are paid REA
  • If your circumstances change (REA)
  • Effects of REA on other benefits
• Retirement Allowance (RA)
  • Conditions of RA entitlement
  • The decision on your RA claim
  • How much RA benefit you will get
  • How you are paid RA
  • If your circumstances change (RA)
  • Effects of Retirement Allowance on other benefits
• Industrial Death Benefit (IDB)
  • Conditions of DB entitlement
  • How you are paid DB
  • If you disagree with the decision regarding DB
  • If your circumstances change (IDB)
• Accidents and diseases before 5 July 1948 – Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme (WCSS)
  • Conditions of entitlement to WCSS
  • How and when to claim WCSS
  • The decision on your claim for WCSS
  • How you are paid WCSS
  • If your circumstances change (WCSS)
  • Other benefits you may be entitled to (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)
  • Conditions of US entitlement
  • How to claim US
  • The decision on your US claim
  • How much US benefit you will get
  • How you are paid US
  • If your circumstances change (US)
• Additional payment for people whose employer has gone out of business
  • Pneumoconiosis, etc (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979
  • How to claim
• Further information
  • Rates of benefits
  • Social security leaflets
  • Technical guides
  • The Acts, Regulations and the ‘Blue Volumes’
  • Abbreviations key for legislation
  • Useful addresses
• Appendix 1: List of diseases covered by Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
  • List of diseases which are covered and the kinds of jobs which are included
• Appendix 2: Prescribed degrees of disablement
  • Amputation cases – upper limbs (either arm)
  • Amputation cases – lower limbs
  • Other injuries
  • Loss of fingers of the right or left hand
  • Loss of toes of the right or left foot
• Appendix 3: Diseases and jobs covered by the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme
  • Diseases and jobs covered by the scheme

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