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Thursday 24 September 2015

Soon ESI Scheme To Cover Self-Employed

Soon medical assistance will cover not only the employed personnel but also the unemployed laborers too. The labour ministry plans to provide medical assistance to all workers and is therefore planning to extend the coverage of ESI to benefit workers in the Northeast, establishments with less than 10 workers and self-employed workers like rickshaw pullers and auto and taxi drivers. Under this ESI scheme, the government provides full medical care to insured persons and to their families from the day they enter insurable employment.

Besides this, the scheme also provides sickness benefits in cash at the rate of 70 percent of wages to the insured person for a maximum of 91 days in a year, 90 percent of the insured person's wage as disablement benefits, 90 percent as dependent benefit and up to Rs.10,000 as funeral benefit to the dependents.

Source: siliconindia.com

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