Qualification and Benefit Payment Standards
If the insured person pass away due to occupational diseases after withdrawing from the insurance, the application for Death Allowances may apply by his/her spouse, child, Parents, Grandparents, Grandchilds supported by the insured person, Siblings supported by the insured person.
※Benefit Standard:
- Based on the average monthly insured salary when the insured withdraws from the insurance, which will be distributed in a lump-sum amount of 45 months of the salary. If the average monthly insured salary calculated is lower than the amount of Level 1 of the insurance salary scale of the Labor Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection Act at the time of diagnosis of permanent disability or death, it shall be calculated and paid according to the amount of Level 1.
- After receiving Permanent disability allowances, if death is caused by occupational disease, the surviving family members may only claim death allowances deducted by the difference of the amount of disability allowance already received.
Application Procedure
- Labor Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection for Insured Person Diagnosed With Occupational Disease Withdraw from Insurance Death Allowances Application Form and Payment Receipt
- The death certificate, the prosecutor's autopsy certificate, or the verdict of a death declaration.
- A transcript of the overall household registration with the date of death. If the beneficiary is a foster child, the date of adoption and registration shall be stated; if the beneficiary and the deceased are not in the same household registration, each household registration transcript shall be submitted altogether.
- If the surviving family is a grandchild or a sibling, the surviving family should attach the relevant documents to prove that they were under the worker who suffered from the occupational disaster.
- The occupational disease diagnosis certificate shall be issued by a specialist in the occupational medicine of a medical institution approved. (If the insured seeks medical treatment in Penghu County, Kinmen County, Lienjiang County, and other outlying island areas, the occupational disease diagnosis certificate may be issued by the physician of the NHI hospital or clinic where the treatment was originally given.)
- Occupational Disease Records Report for Occupational Accident Insurance. (If the content of the Occupational Disease Records Report for Occupational Accident Insurance has been specified in the occupational disease diagnosis certificate, the Occupational Disease Records Report may be exempted from being submitted.)
※Those who have received Medical care subsidies or Permanent disability allowances for the same occupational disease may be exempted from submitting the documents and certificates of above e and f.