How does compensation fund work

Claim for occupational injury or disease from the Compensation Fund If you get injured, contract a disease or die while working, you or your dependants can claim from the Compensation Fund. You can claim if you are: permanently employed a domestic worker in a boarding house or employed in a business set-up an apprentice or trainee farm worker a worker paid by a labour agency. Access to assistive mobility devices at the expense of the Board. Commutation of the monthly pension with a view to yielding a lump sum amount for investment in a business venture and acquiring of assets.

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Service Create listings for services offered by the Western Cape Government. Western Cape Government. Claiming compensation for occupational injuries or diseases. You can claim if: You were injured or contracted a disease while working permanent or casual , training or completing an apprenticeship.

You lost a family member who died on the job. A member of the South African Police Services there is a separate fund. An outsourced employee. A worker who works outside South Africa for more than 12 months at a time.

Claims will not be paid if: The claim is made more than 12 months after the accident or death, or after the disease is diagnosed. You are off work for three days or less. You unreasonably refuse to have medical treatment.

Who pays into the fund? Which injuries and diseases are covered? Covid Occupationally-acquired Covid is a disease contracted by an employee as defined in the COID Act through and in the course of their employment. The amount payable by the employee to FGCT equals 0. Every year there are 12 payments, for each month, within the time limits laid down for settlement of social security contributions, for each worker one for each 12 monthly base retributions and seniority payments.

These payments are linked to 1,, employment contracts. Eurofound, Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Co. Eurofound is an agency of the European Union. Skip to main content.