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Social Security - Sickness Insurance

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E forms: General Overview
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Sickness Insurance
Maternity Insurance
Invalidity Insurance
Old Age Insurance
Life Insurance
Unemployment Benefits
Minimum Income Guarantee

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Sickness Insurance - Beneficiaries and Conditions for Entitlement
The health allowance is a wage supplement paid to workers in the event of sickness, from the fourth day. No benefit is paid for the first 3 days. The benefit is paid to private sector workers and Service Sector employees (formerly trade sector), people who are unemployed and suspended from work (belonging to the above categories) provided the working relationship ceased or was suspended no more than 60 days before the beginning of the sickness.

Each agreement allows a maximum number of days of absence for sickness and the employer may fire the employee for a justified reason if he or she remains off work for a longer period. The sickness benefit is payable for periods of no more than 180 calendar days in a calendar year.

For workers on short-term contracts, the right to sickness benefit ceases when the employee stops work. In such cases, INPS pays the benefit directly to people who are unemployed or suspended from work (who do not receive an allowance to supplement their income), when the benefit is reduced to agricultural workers and workers hired on temporary contracts for seasonal work.

For most categories, the amount is equal to 50% of the average overall daily wage for the first twenty days of sickness and 66.66% for subsequent days of the same disease or a relapse.

Text last edited on: 02/2007

Source: European Union
© European Communities, 1995-2006
Reproduction is authorised.

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