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however, invalidity benefit or retirement or widow's pension would have been payable but for the payment of injury benefit, increases payable are:

wife/adult dependant

first child

each other child

Injury benefit is not taxable.

How to claim

£10.50

£7.40; and £6.90

£6.10 for each child from April 1978 when child benefit is increased.

Any employed person who has an accident at work should tell the employer at once. In factories, mines, quarries and at large business premises the accident book should be completed.

Injury benefit is claimed in the same way as sickness benefit (see page 30). Claims should be made within six days of the start of incapacity otherwise some benefit may be lost.

Further information: Leaflets NI2 (Prescribed industrial diseases); NI5 (Accidents at work).

Industrial disablement benefit

Disablement benefit is a pension or gratuity paid for any disablement due to an industrial accident or disease which remains when injury benefit ends. It can be paid whether or not the claimant is working and in addition to any national insurance benefit to which the claimant is entitled.

The conditions

Disablement benefit can only be paid if there is disablement due to an industrial accident or prescribed industrial disease. It can be paid when injury benefit ends or, if the claimant has not been off work, from three days after the accident. The extent of any disablement is assessed by a medical board.

Amounts payable

A weekly pension is payable where the assessment of disablement is between 20 per cent and 100 per cent. The rates vary from £5.72 (20 per cent disablement) to £28-60 (100 per cent disablement).

A gratuity is normally paid where disablement is 19 per cent or less. Industrial disablement benefit is not taxable.

Increases can be paid with disablement benefit as follows:

Special hardship allowance: where as a result of the injury or disease the claimant is unable to return to his regular job and cannot do work of a similar standard. Rate payable: up to £11-44 a week as long as the benefit and allowance together do not exceed £28.60 a week.

Constant attendance allowance: where disablement is 100 per cent (or totals 100 per cent including disablement due to certain other causes eg war injuries) and the claimant needs constant care and attention as a result of the effects of the injury or disease. Rate payable: up to £11-40 a week or £22.80 a week in cases of exceptionally severe disablement. Exceptionally severe disablement allowance: where constant attendance allowance is being paid at a rate of more than £11.40 a week (or would

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