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Entitlement to benefit and medical assessment within the IIDB scheme: IIAC information note

This is the council’s note about its investigations into the rules and processes used to evaluate entitlement to benefit for IIDB.

• From: Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 19 June 2018

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Entitlement to benefit and medical assessment within the IIDB scheme: IIAC information note

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This information note provides a summary of several recent linked investigations by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) into the rules and processes used to evaluate entitlement to benefit under the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) Scheme.

More detailed commentaries and a fuller account of the council’s recommendations have been published in:

• Presumption that a disease is due to the nature of employment: coverage and time rules (Cm 8880)

• Presumption that a disease is due to the nature of employment: the role of rebuttal in claims assessment (Cm 9030)

• Diseases with multiple known causes and rebuttal (position paper 34)

• Diseases with multiple known causes, occupational injuries, and medical assessment (Cm 9632)

Published 19 June 2018