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Disability Benefits

1. What is the qualification and benefit standard for claiming disability benefits?
2. What documents are required when applying for disability benefits?
3. Where can the insured person obtain the related data for labor insurance disability benefits standard?
4. After the implementation of newly amended Labor Insurance Act on January 1, 2009, do disability benefits could only be claimed monthly?
5. If the insured person claims disability pension benefits, what kind of qualifications should the insured person’s spouse and children meet to claim for extra dependent allowances?
6. If a Labor Insurance insured person is more than 60 years of age and has more than 20 years of insurance coverage, and has become vegetable state after receiving medical treatment for cerebral hemorrhage, could he/she claim for old age pension and disability pension benefits?
7. If an insured person has severe disability, is it true that no matter the insured person claim for lump sum-disability benefits or disability pension benefits, he/she could not claim death benefits when he/she dies?
8. If an insured person of Labor Insurance has participated in National Pension Insurance, Could he/she include the insurance coverage year of National Pension Insurance when claiming for disability benefits? How would the benefit amount be calculated?
9. If an insurance person of labor insurance loses eight of his/her teeth due to a traffic accident, Could he/she claim for disability benefits?
10. Is an insured person eligible for disability benefits for having organ transplant on the viscera in Chest and Abdomen?
11. Is a dialysis patient eligible for disability benefits?
12. Is a female insured person eligible for claiming disability benefits after having hysterectomy due to uterine fibroids at more than 45 years of age?
13. Should an insured person withdraw from labor insurance coverage after applying and received disability benefits?
14. In the event that an insured person withdraws from insurance coverage and is diagnosed of having an occupational sickness and determined as permanently disable, is he/she eligible for occupational benefits payment?
15. What is the disability pension’s individualized professional assessment mechanism?
16. Why does it need to append the “individualized professional assessment mechanism”? Does it have a premise of law?
17. When has the individualized professional assessment mechanism been implemented? When an individualized has collected the onetime payout on the same disability condition prior to the induction of the scheme, can the individualized revamp to collecting the pension payout through the assessment mechanism?
18. Following the induction of the individualized professional assessment mechanism, has the disability benefits application method been changed? How does one apply for the individualized professional assessment?
19. Do all individuals filing for the “disability pension payout” required to undergo the individualized professional assessment?
20. Upon undergoing the individualized professional assessment, will an individualized be eligible to collect the pension by month?
21. To collect the pension payout through the individualized professional assessment, if an individualized has already sent in the old form, can the individualized change whose application to the disability pension payout scheme?
22. How long does it take to undergo the individualized professional assessment? When will the pension payout be released?
23. Upon undergoing the individualized professional assessment, are there any differences to an individual’s relevant equity? How does the amount of the disability pension payout calculated?
24. During the period of collecting the disability pension payment, can an individual continue to join the insurance? Can the individual collect the old-age benefits?

Last Update：2019-08-20