ACCIDENTS AT WORK AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
Benefits whose right is maintained, responsible entities
(Convergent Social Protection Scheme)

» Benefits that are maintained after termination of the employment legal relationship, regardless of the respective cause

» In the situation in which the discharge has not been certified yet, that is to say, when the situation has not yet been considered clinically healed or not capable of amendment with appropriate therapeutics by the competent physician, and while it is not, all justified benefits are maintained in each concrete case, with exception of the compensation in the period of absences to the service and professional re-integration during the temporary incapacity for work, for being inapplicable

» In the situation in which the discharge has been certified, the public employee maintains the right to benefits for permanent invalidity:

- Prostheses and orthoses, their renewal, repair and maintenance

- Professional re-integration appropriate to remaining capacities, in the case of permanent invalidity for the fulfilment of the function

- transport and stay

- indemnity/benefits for permanent invalidity

- housing rehabilitation allowance

- high invalidity situations allowance

» In the case of death directly resulting from accident at work or occupational disease, the family is entitled to the respective benefits

Who grants the benefits

» The employer entity at the service of which the accident at work has taken place or the occupational disease has been caught

» The Public Employee General Pension Scheme grants the benefits for permanent invalidity or death, as well as the assistance by a third person allowance, if the injured or sick person is retired

» In the case of exceptionally authorized transfer of responsibility for accidents at work to an insurance company, this one shall be the competent authority to grant all applicable benefits