be but for the fact that the claimant is in hospital) and where the need for such attendance is likely to be permanent. Rate payable: £11.40 a week. Hospital treatment allowance: where the claimant is in hospital receiving treatment for the injury or disease. Rate payable: will raise benefit to the 100 per cent rate.
Unemployability supplement: where as a result of the injury or disease the claimant is permanently unfit for work. An allowance is also payable according to age when incapacity started (see “Invalidity allowance” on page 17) but unemployability supplement cannot be paid with special hardship allowance or sickness or invalidity benefit or retirement or widow's pension. Rate payable: £17.50 a week with increases for dependants at the invalidity benefit rates.
How to claim
Claim forms are available from local social security offices and claims can be made when injury benefit stops, or, if injury benefit is not being paid, as soon as the first signs of disablement appear.
If injury benefit is still being paid towards the end of the 26 weeks the local office will invite a claim. If a claim form has not been received by the end of 26 weeks the claimant should get in touch with the local office.
Further information: Leaflets NI2 (Prescribed industrial diseases), NI3 (Pneumoconiosis and byssinosis), NI6 (Disablement benefit), NI207 (Oc- cupational deafness).
Industrial death benefit
Industrial death benefit is a pension, allowance or gratuity paid to a dependant of someone who dies as a result of an industrial accident or disease.
Amounts payable
A widow living with her husband, or being maintained by him, at time of his death:
The weekly rates are:
for first 26 weeks (plus any earnings-related addition which would have been payable had she been entitled to national insurance widow's allowance)
£24.50
after first 26 weeks (according to circumstances) £18.05 or £5.25
Allowances for children of the deceased:
When payable to the widow with her widow's pension:
The weekly rates are:
first or only child
each other child
£7.40; and £6.10 for each child from April 1978 £6.90
when child benefit is increased
When payable to someone other than the widow:
The weekly rates are:
first child
15
each other child
£3.50; and £3.00
£2.20 for each child from April 1978 when child benefit is increased