Family Guide to the National Insurance Scheme
1948 1948 1940s 32 pages : illustrations The Scheme does not apply if the accident happened (or the disease developed) before 5th July 1948. The Workmen's Compensation Acts will continue to apply to such cases (but see para. 55.) 51. How to Notify an Injury. If you are injured at work you,...
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[London] : His Majesty's Stationery Office
[1948]
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The Scheme does not apply if the accident happened (or the disease developed) before 5th July 1948. The Workmen's Compensation Acts will continue to apply to such cases (but see para. 55.) 51. How to Notify an Injury. If you are injured at work you, or somebody for you, should at once tell your employer, or someone who acts for him. If an Accident Book is kept, an entry in it will be enough. 52. What are the Benefits ? There are three types of benefit : Injury Benefit, Disablement Benefit, and Death Benefit. 53. Injury Benefit. For a person aged 18 and over who is incapable of work as the result of industrial accident or disease, Injury Benefit is payable at the rate of 45s. a week. The rate may be reduced for a person under age 18. It is paid for a maximum period of 26 weeks, from the date of the accident. Injury Benefit is claimed in the same way as Sickness Benefit. The allowances for an adult dependant and child are the same as for Sickness Benefit. Benefit for the day of the accident and the next two days will not be paid unless you are unable to work for 12 days or more because of it. There are special rules where a second industrial injury, or sickness, or unemployment, follows within 13 weeks, to link it up with the earlier industrial injury. 54. Disablement Benefit. This benefit is payable in respect of any disablement you may still have after Injury Benefit stops. It will continue to be payable even though you work. The amount of benefit depends on the extent of the disablement as assessed by a Medical Board and not on your earnings before the accident. It varies from 45s. a week for 100 per cent disable- 28
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