Diseases you may get benefit for include:

How much you get depends on how disabled you are.

You may be able to get other allowances as well:

Reduced Earnings Allowance:

Payable if you cannot return to your regular job, or cannot do work of the same standard because of a disability caused by an industrial accident or disease which occurred before 1 October 1990. If you are getting a Reduced Earnings Allowance of £2 or more a week, and you are of state pension age and cease regular employment, your Reduced Earnings Allowance will stop and you may be entitled to Retirement Allowance.

Constant Attendance Allowance:

Payable if the disability for which you get your Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit is assessed at 95 per cent or more and you need constant care and attention. There are four rates. How much you get depends on how much attention you need.

Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance:

Payable if you are already entitled to Constant Attendance Allowance at either of the two higher rates, and if the need for attendance is likely to be permanent.

How to claim:

If you had an accident at work or contracted an industrial disease before 5 July 1948

and you are entitled to weekly payments of Workingmen’s compensation, you may be able to get this tax-free supplement.

For more information on how to claim, get leaflet WS1-Extra cash with Workmen’s Compensation.

Pneumoconiosis, byssinosis and miscellaneous diseases benefits

These are tax-free benefits for people who contracted pneumoconiosis, byssinosis or certain other diseases as a result of employment before 5 July 1948. You may qualify provided you have not been paid Workmen’s compensation, industrial injuries benefits or damages for your disease. How much benefit you can get depends on how disabled you are.

You may get an allowance for your wife and children. You may get other allowances as well.

If you are a dependant of someone who dies as a result of these diseases, you may get a lump sum payment.

If you got pneumoconiosis or byssinosis as a result of employment on or after 5 July 1948 you may be entitled to a tax-free cash benefit under the scheme for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, described above

If you got any of these diseases before 5 July 1948 use the form PN1A in leaflet PN1.

If you got them as a result of employment on or after that date, get the appropriate claim form in the BI100 series. Do not delay or you may lose benefit.

Get leaflet PN1-Pneumoconiosis, byssinosis and some other diseases from work.

Get leaflet NI3-If you have pneumoconiosis or byssinosis, if you got either disease because of employment after 5 July 1948

Industrial injuries compensation

If you are injured at work through the fault of your employer, you may be able to claim compensation from that employer. The amount payable can depend on how badly you were injured or disabled, loss of earnings and any negligence on the part of your employer or employees. Your employer has to display a certificate of insurance covering liability for this compensation.

Ask a solicitor or your trade union. The secretary of the local law society will give you an introduction to a solicitor- see the law list in a public library or the Law Centres in this sites main index. Citizens Advice Bureaux also keep a list of solicitors

Recovery of Benefits from Compensation
(previously Compensation Recovery)

If as a result of an accident, injury or disease for which you are also making a claim for compensation you are awarded one of the following benefits or allowances:

You should be aware that your eventual compensation award may be reduced to take account of any benefit paid for the same purpose.

Get leaflet Z3-Recovery of Benefits, from:

Compensation Recovery Unit, Reyrolle Building,
Hebburn, Tyne and Wear NE31 1XB Tel: 0191 225 8157