Glossary:Other cash benefits
These benefits include:
- (under disability function): periodic and lump-sum payments not falling under the main headings of cash benefits related to the function, such as occasional income support and so on. If it concerns a lump-sum, the benefit is normally granted instead of a periodical disability pension, the beneficiaries usually only having a low level of disability.
- (under family/children function): benefits paid independently of family allowances to support households and help them meet specific costs, such as costs arising from the specific needs of lone parent families or families with handicapped children. These benefits may be paid periodically or as a lump-sum.
- (under sickness/health care function): miscellaneous payments made to the protected people in connection with sickness or injury. Examples are allowances for intensive care, special bonuses or allowances for tuberculosis patients.
- (under unemployment function): other financial assistance, particularly payments to the long-term unemployed, such as start-up incentives in the form of payment of unemployment benefit.