Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIV. Summary of conclusions and recommendations

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284 MAJORITY REPORT. (69) That Section 13 (5) of the Act should be amended so as to provide that an illness shall not be treated as a continuation of a former illness if in the period of 12 months immediately preceding the commencement of the illness the insured person has had quly short periods of incapacity amounting to not more than six days in the aggregate. (para. 487.) (70) That in the case of insured persons who, during in- capacity, are inmates of any of the institutions mentioned in Section 17 of the Act the amount of accumulated sickness and disablement benefit payable to the insured person on leaving the institution, or to his legal representatives on his death in the institution, shall be limited to £50, and that the balance of the accumulated benefit over and above this sum shall be paid into the Central Fund at yearly or half-yearly intervals. (para. 491.) (71) That any sum representing accumulated sickness and disablement benefit payable to an insured person on leaving an institution shall, in all cases, be paid in instalments at a weekly rate equal to the rate of sickness benefit normally payable by the Society of which he is a member. (para. 495.) (72) That the attention of Societies should be directed to the provisions of Section 17 (2) (b) of the Act under which they are empowered to make payments towards defraying expenses of members during their stay in an institution, and that Societies should be encouraged to make fuller use of that power by meet- ing the cost of small additional comforts for their members in such circumstances. (para. 496.) (73) That provision should be made to empower Societies to recover (without prejudice to any existing rights of recovery) overpayments of benefit made to a member, by withholding each week from sickness or disablement benefit due in respect of subsequent periods of incapacity occurring within 12 months of the date on which the overpayment was brought to the notice of the member an amount not exceeding one-third of the weekly sum then payable as benefit. (para. 502.) (74) That Section 25 of the Act, which empowers the Minister to provide for the re-insurance with him of the liabilities of all Approved Societies in respect of maternity benefit. should be repealed. (para. 511.) ADDITIONAL BENEFITS. (75) That in the case of new entrants into insurance no change should be made in the present position as regards title to additional benefits. (para. 585.) (76) That in the case of persons transferring from one Approved Society to another the title to participate in the additional benefits—whether cash or treatment benefits—pro- vided bv the new Society should mature at the end of two years

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