TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Qualification for claiming benefits
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....s an employee within the meaning of Chapter IV of the Code for the first time and for whom a shorter contribution period of less than one hundred and fifty six days is available, he shall be qualified to claim sickness benefit if the contribution in respect of him were payable for not less than half the number of days available for working in such contribution period: Provided further that in case of an Insured woman in receipt of maternity benefit or an Insured Person in receipt of temporary disablement benefit and owing to such fact, as the case may be, a shorter contribution period is available to her or him, she or he shall be qualified to claim sickness benefit in the corresponding benefit period if the contribution in her or his re....
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....luding the sickness benefit under fourth proviso to sub-rule (1), subject to the conditions as specified in the regulations made under section 157. (d) The daily rate of the extended sickness benefit of an insured person shall be eighty per cent. of the "Standard Benefit Rate". (3) (a) An insured woman shall be qualified to claim maternity benefits for a confinement occurring or expected to occur in a benefit period, if the contributions in respect of her were payable for not less than seventy days in the immediately preceding two consecutive contribution periods. (b) Subject to the provisions of the Code and the regulations, if any, an insured woman who is qualified to claim maternity benefits in accordance with clause (a) shall b....
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....of, as may be required under the regulations made under section 157, to maternity benefits at the rates specified in clause (e), for all days on which she does not work for remuneration during a period of six weeks immediately following the date of her miscarriage or medical termination of pregnancy. (d) An insured woman who is qualified to claim maternity benefits in accordance with clause (a) in case of sickness arising out of pregnancy, confinement, premature birth of child or miscarriage or medical termination of pregnancy shall, on production of such proof, as may be required under the regulations made under section 157, be entitled, in addition to the maternity benefits payable to her under any other provisions of the Chapter IV, f....
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....under this sub-rule shall be payable for that limited period, or as the case may be, for life. (c) The daily rate of disablement benefit shall be ninety per cent. of the standard benefit rate in the contribution period corresponding to the benefit period in which the employment injury occurs, rounded to the next higher rupee: Provided that where an employment injury occurs before the commencement of the first benefit period in respect of a person, the daily rate of disablement benefit shall be - (i) where a person sustains employment injury after the expiry of the first wage period in the contribution period in which the injury occurs, ninety per cent. of his average daily wages in that wage period, rounded to the next higher....
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....ggregated but not so in any case as to exceed the full rate and in cases of disablement not covered by sub-clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) at such rate, not exceeding the full rate, as provided in the regulations made under section 157. (6) Dependants' benefit shall be paid to the dependants of the Insured Person who dies as a result of an employment injury, in the following manner, namely:- (a) In the case of death of the Insured Person, the dependants' benefit shall be payable to his widow, children and widowed mother as follows, namely: - (i) to the widow during life until remarriage, an amount equivalent to three-fifths of the full rate and, if there are two or more widows, the amount payable to the widow as afore....
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.... (i) to the widower during life until remarriage, at an amount equivalent to three-fifths of the full rate; (ii) to a parent other than the widowed mother or grandparent, for life, at an amount equivalent to two fifths of the full rate and if there are two or more parents (other than widowed mother) or grandparents the amount payable to the parents (other than widowed mother) or grandparents as aforesaid shall be equally divided between them; (iii) to any other - (a) male dependant, until he attains the age of eighteen years, (b) female dependant, until she attains the age of eighteen years or until marriage, whichever is earlier or if widowed, until she attains eighteen years of age or re-marriage,....