Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit

What is Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit?

This is extra money if you are ill or disabled from an accident or disease caused by work.

Can I get Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit?

Accidents

We use accident to mean an incident or series of incidents at work which were not deliberate and which resulted in personal injury. You can apply at any time for a decision from us on whether your accident was an industrial accident. This is not a claim for benefit. But it may be of help if you decide to claim benefit in the future because of your accident.

Diseases

You must have:

• got the disease as a result of work,
• been employed in Great Britain,
• done certain types of work, and
• the work must have been done on or after 5 July 1948.

We may need you to have a medical check to help us decide the extent of your disablement and how long it will last.

We will not pay Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit if you did the work that made you ill:

• when you were self-employed, or
• before 5 July 1948.

How much can I get?

How much you get is based on how badly you are disabled.

It can be paid after 15 weeks (90 days not counting Sundays) from the first day you are disabled by the disease or accident.

Disablement Benefit

When and how do I claim?

If you think you may get Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, claim as soon as you can.

If you delay, you may lose some benefit.

Claim straight away if you have an illness caused by your work.

We deal with Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit at 6 benefit delivery centres. Contact the centre by telephone or letter covering the area where you live:

East and West Midlands
Jobcentre Plus
Sutton in Ashfield IIDB Centre
Padge Road
Nottingham, NG80 8AX
Phone: 0845 608 8779
Text Phone: 01977 464144

London and South East
Jobcentre Plus
Broadstairs IIDB Centre
Sandling Road
Maidstone, ME99 2AB
Phone: 0845 608 8913
Text Phone: 01977 464144

North East
Jobcentre Plus
Hartlepool IIDB Centre
Hartlepool Jobcentre
Earlsway
Gateshead NE92 1AP
Phone: 0845 600 1587
Text Phone: 01977 464144

North West and East of England
Jobcentre Plus
Barrow IIDB Centre
Pittman Way
Preston PR11 2AB
Phone: 0845 603 1358
Text Phone: 01977 464144

Scotland
Jobcentre Plus
Ayr IIDB Centre
Ayr Jobcentre
Baird Street
Glasgow G90 8AB
Phone: 0845 608 8967
Text Phone: 01977 464144

Yorkshire and the Humber, the South West and Wales
Jobcentre Plus
Castleford IIDB Centre
Leodis Way
Leeds LS88 8AQ
Phone: 0845 758 5433
Text Phone: 01977 464144

Information about call charges

More information can be found in the following leaflet.

 Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (147.56kb)

 Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Claim (accident) (271kb)

 Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Claim form (prescribed disease) (269.60kb)

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