Sickness benefit (social insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases)

Individuals covered by the social insurance against accidents at work and occupational diseases are entitled to receive the sickness benefit for accidents at work or occupational disease benefit (“the sickness benefit”) if they temporarily become incapable for work and lose their income from work as a result of an accident at work, on the way to or from work or occupational disease recognized as insured events. The insured person becomes entitled to the sickness benefit irrespective of the duration of state social insurance.

If, at the time of entitlement to the sickness benefit, an individual was entitled to the sickness benefit as a result of general disease, he is paid the sickness benefit for accident at work or occupational disease.

The amount of sickness benefit is 77,58 per cent of the compensatory wage.

Compensatory wage for sickness benefits shall be calculated pursuant to the procedure laid down by the Regulations Regarding the Benefits of the Social Insurance of Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases, according to the insured income of insured person’s during three consecutive calendar months preceding the calendar month before the month in which temporary incapacity for work was established.

A monthly compensatory wage for the calculation of sickness benefits shall not exceed the amount equal to 2 country’s average monthly wage of the quarter preceding the last quarter.

A monthly compensatory wage for the calculation of a sickness benefit shall not be lower than 15% of the country’s average monthly wage of the quarter preceding the last quarter as calculated on the first day of the established temporary incapacity for work.