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Sickness
Benefit - Enhanced Sickness Benefit
Enhanced Sickness Benefits
It was introduced w.e.f 1.8.1976 as an incentive to IPs/IWs for undergoing
Vasectomy / Tubectomy. Insured Persons eligible to ordinary sickness benefit
are paid enhanced sickness benefit at double the rate of sickness benefit
i.e., about full average daily wage for undergoing sterilisation operations
for family welfare. Duration of enhanced Sickness Benefits is upto 7 days in
the case of Vasectomy and upto 14 days in the case of the Tubectomy from the
date of operation or from the date of admission in the hospital as the case
may be. The period is extendable in case of post operative complications.
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