Benefits

This branch of Benefit provides coverage for insured persons under the following categories: 

• Sickness Benefit
• Maternity Allowance
• Maternity Grants
• Sickness Benefit After Maternity
• Funeral Grant

This branch of Benefit provides coverage for an insured person who suffers an employment injury, that is an injury or death by way of an accident at work or a disease caused by the type of work he or she does. This Benefit covers:

• Employment Injury/Prescribed Disease Benefit
• Death Benefit
• Constant Attendance Allowance
• Medicare
• Disablement Pension
• Disablement Grant

In order for a Long-Term Benefit to be paid, there are contribution conditions to be met. Payments for these benefits can be in the form of pensions or grants, determined by the number of accumulated paid contributions to the scheme. The Long-Term Benefits Branch provides coverage for: 

• Retirement Benefit
• Retirement Grant
• Funeral Grant: Death by Natural Cause
• Survivor’s Benefit
• Survivor’s Grant
• Invalidity Benefit
• Invalidity Grant
• Non Contributory Pension