The Employees State Insurance Corporation on 15th June 2021 has notified the eligibility conditions to avail the covid-19 relief, the Scheme is for the beneficiaries of the insured persons, in the instance the insured person died as a result of COVID-19. The Scheme will be valid for a period of 2 years with retrospective effect from 24 March 2020
The Eligibility conditions of the scheme are as under:
The IP who died due to COVID-19 disease must have been registered on the ESIC online portal at least three months prior to the date of diagnosis of COVID-19 disease resulting in his/ her death and must have been in employment on the date of diagnosis of COVID-19 disease and contributions for at least 70 days should have been paid or payable in respect of him/ her during a period of maximum one year immediately preceding the diagnosis of COVID-19 disease resulting in death.
The spouse, a legitimate or adopted son who has not attained the age of twenty- five years, an unmarried legitimate or adopted daughter; widowed mother shall be eligible to receive periodical payments under the Scheme.
90 % of the average daily wages of the deceased IP, which will be called as full rate of the relief, will be paid to the dependants of the IP who died due to COVID-19.
The minimum relief under the scheme shall be Rs 1800/- per month.
ESIC has invited objections or suggestion from the public which shall be addressed to Shri S Biswas, Insurance Commissioner, Employees’ State Insurance Corporation, Panchdeep Bhawan, CIG Marg, New Delhi 110002 (e-mail Id: dir-pnd@ esic.nic.in) within a period of 30 days.
