Salaried employee
The employer will pay your salary for the day of the injury.
- If you were absent from work for less than 12 days – the injury allowance will be paid to you for the days of absence from work beginning from the third day after the day of the injury.
For example, if the date of the injury was June 1, 2012, and you were absent from work due to the injury until June 8, 2012, you will be eligible for injury allowance for the days from June 4, 2012 until June 8, 2012, inclusive. - If you were absent from work for more than 12 days – the injury allowance will be paid in accordance with the days of your incapacity (without deducting the first two days after the injury).
After the National Insurance Institute authorizes the claim, it will pay the injury allowance to your bank account (the account indicated in the claim form).
The National Insurance Institute collects the money that it paid to the worker for the first 12 days (except for the employer of a household worker) from the employer.
Under special authorization from the National Insurance Institute, an employer is entitled to pay an injury allowance to his employee instead of the National Insurance Institute (under Regulation 22, Chapter E of the regulations regarding insurance coverage for work injuries) or on behalf of the National Insurance Institute.
The injury allowance paid by the employer may not be less than the injury allowance due to the employee by law. An employee whose employer received permission to pay an injury allowance to his employee is not entitled to receive payment from the NII as well.
Self-employed workers
The injury allowance will be paid in accordance with the period of incapacity to work, after the first 12 days of absence from work are deducted.
If you were absent from work due to an injury for more than 91 days, or if you have a disability due to the work injury, you may submit a claim for determining degree of disability.