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If you take time off from work due to sickness

“Injury and Sickness Allowance” is paid when an insured person unable to earn a salary or other income while unable to work due to a nonoccupational sickness or injury.

Injury and Sickness Allowance

If an insured person is unable to earn a salary or other income while taking leave due to a nonoccupational sickness or injury, insurance will pay an amount equal to two-thirds of his or her average standard monthly remuneration over the 12-month period leading up to the month in which payment of the allowance begins ÷ 30 per day of leave to safeguard the livelihood of the insured person and his or her family. This is called “the Injury and Sickness Allowance”. Even if the insured person receives a salary or other income from his or her place of work, if the amount of such income is less than the Injury and Sickness Allowance then the difference in amounts is paid as Injury and Sickness Allowance.

** Provisional measure
Aggregating the days paid up to the total payment period of 18 months from the date on which payment begins will apply to the Injury and Sickness Allowance (payment of which begins on or after July 2, 2020) for which the payment period based on calendar days is less than 18 months as of December 31, 2021. The payment period will continue to be the period of 18 months from the date on which payment begins if 18 months from the date on which payment begins have passed as of that date.

The society's additional benefits: “Injury and Sickness Allowance Additional Sum”

The Health Insurance Society also provides its own independent benefits (additional benefits) in addition to the Injury and Sickness Allowance.
The Injury and Sickness Allowance Additional Sum is equal to approximately 18.33% of the average standard monthly remuneration over the 12-month period leading up to the month in which payment of the allowance begins ÷ 30, per day of leave.

Conditions for payment

This benefit is paid when all four of the following conditions are met.

  1. You are recuperating under treatment for sickness or injury (recuperation at home is acceptable).
  2. You are unable to perform your previous job because you are recuperating from sickness or injury.
  3. You have taken at least three consecutive days off.

    • ** Payment of this benefit begins on the fourth consecutive day off.
    • ** The first three days are referred to as the waiting period, and no benefits are paid for those days.
  4. You are unable to receive salary or other income
    • ** Even if you are receiving a salary or other income, if the amount of such income is less than the Injury and Sickness Allowance then the Society will pay the difference.

Cases in which you are eligible to receive the Injury and Sickness Allowance and Maternity Allowance concurrently

If you become eligible to receive the Injury and Sickness Allowance and Maternity Allowance concurrently, payment of the Maternity Allowance will be granted priority. However, if the Maternity Allowance paid is less than the Injury and Sickness Allowance, the difference between the two amounts will be paid.

If you become eligible for Disability Employees’ Pension

If you become eligible to receive Disability Employees’ Pension under Employees’ Pension Insurance (including the Disability Basic Pension under the National Pension program), payment of the Injury and Sickness Allowance will end.
Injury and Sickness Allowance benefits will not be paid after retirement if you receive Old-Age Employees’ Pension or similar benefits.

However, the Society will pay the difference if the amount paid by the pension or other program in any of the above cases is less than the amount of the Injury and Sickness Allowance.
If applying to continue receiving Injury and Sickness Allowance after leaving your employer, submit a Letter of Consent ()if you are applying for the first time. You must submit a Report on Daily Living and Medical Care () with each application.

If the cause is a workplace accident

If the cause is an accident at the workplace or while commuting, Worker's Accident Compensation Insurance applies instead of health insurance. Check with the person responsible at your establishment for more information.

  • ** When even illnesses and injuries on-the-job are not targeted for benefits of the Worker's Accident Compensation Insurance, benefits of the health insurance are provided except the duties as the officer of the corporation (except for a corporation less than five employees).

Caution

The right to claim health insurance benefits expires in two years.

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