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Sickness benefit is payable to insured employed and self-employed persons and to
persons who are working abroad for Cypriot employers and are voluntary
contributors.
Payment of sickness benefit is subject to the following conditions:
- the insured person must be unable to work because of sickness and not
receiving the full amount of his salary or wage from the employer during the
period of his sickness,
- at least 26 weeks must have passed between the day on which the person
became insured and the day on which he became unable to work, and in that
period he must have paid earnings-related contributions totalling not less
than 26 times the weekly basic insurable earnings amount, and
- insurable earnings totalling not less than 20 times the weekly basic
insurable earnings amount must have been paid or credited to the person in
the previous contributions year.
Sickness benefit is payable for at least 156 working days in each period of
interruption of employment. Payment of the benefit may be extended for a further
156 working days in the same period of interruption of employment if the insured
person satisfies the contributions requirements for an invalidity pension but is
not expected to be permanently incapable of work.
The amount of the benefit is determined on the basis of the insured person’s
average weekly paid and credited insurable earnings in the previous
contributions year.
In order to be paid sickness benefit the insured person must submit a claim
on a special form which can be obtained from any social insurance office and
from the website of the Social Insurance Services. The claim must be accompanied
by a medical certificate and be submitted within 21 days from the date on which
the person became unable to work.
Further Information
Text last edited on: 12/2007
Source: European Union
© European Communities, 1995-2008
Reproduction is authorised.
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