The entitlement to an annual convalescence grant is determined by the level of disability, type of injury and further criteria as specified below. Chronic disabled treated at a hospital or other therapeutic institution as in-patients are not entitled to a convalescence grant.
The grant is paid annually with the monthly benefit for June. The basis for the calculation of the grant is the value of one convalescence day paid to civil servants:
Disability degree of 30% to 39% – three convalescence days.
Disability degree of 40% to 49% – five convalescence days.
Disability degree of 50% to 99% – 11 convalescence days.
Special cases:
Persons with a disability degree of 10% to 49% who continuously subsist on the special benefit for a period of one year are entitled to seven convalescence days.
Recognized disability degree of 30% to 49% and an overall disability degree of 50% or above – eight convalescence days.
Overall disability degree of 40% and above for a heart injury – 11 convalescence days.
Persons with the levels of disability specified below are also entitled to a funding of an escort:
100% – 11 convalescence days (for the disabled person and their escort).
100% – with the following injuries: paraplegia; quadriplegia; maurosis or two-arm injury – 14 convalescence days.
100% – special with all types of injuries – 14 convalescence days.
At least 50% for an arm and a leg, for each limb separately, for the complete loss of functionality for a single injury clause (and not the total number of injuries for the same limb) – 14 convalescence days.
Disabled persons as specified below are entitled to additional seven convalescence days for themselves and their escort:
Blind person who are 50 years old or older, with a disability degree of 100%.
Persons with a special disability level with the following types of injury: paralysis in both legs (paraplegia, triplegia, quadriplegia); two-leg amputation; two-arm amputation and single-leg amputation with injury in the second leg.