On January 1, 2022, changes to the Act on the Social Insurance System and some other acts will come into force, which will affect the rules for receiving sickness benefits.
Among other things, the time of receiving sickness benefit by people who have lost their job will change. So far it has been 182 days, but in the new year it will be reduced to just 91 days. Nothing will change in the event of inability to do so work in connection with pregnancy or tuberculosis – in these cases, employees will still be able to count on 270 days of sickness benefit.
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Sick leave under the magnifying glass of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS). Inspections from January 2022
The Social Insurance Institution will be able to control employees who are on sick leave, for example, find out whether a person employed in two companies and on sick leave in one of them does not work in the other at that time.
People who receive relatively high welfare benefits or who stay on L4 for more than 30 days may be especially targeted. The range of powers has been expanded to include additional inspections, including the possibility of appointing and questioning witnesses, he says rynekzdrowia.pl.
Sick leave in 2022. What will change from the new year?
For example, your spouse or neighbors, friends may be asked by SISTER whether during L4 the patient did not perform activities that were not permitted at that time, e.g. renovation. Employees SISTER They will also be able to check phone logins and social networks, and when a sick person went on vacation during L4, ZUS will be able to apply to a travel agency, for example, with a request to disclose their whereabouts.
New The law also stipulates that a 60-day break in receiving the unemployment benefit will be needed to renew the right to paid absenteeism. During this time, the employee must return to practice. The amount of the allowance for hospital stay will increase from the current 70 percent. the basis of the allowance assessment up to 80% In addition, women who give birth to a child after the end of insurance coverage, if it expired due to the death of the employer, will be entitled to maternity benefit.
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