Calculation Procedure for Daily Earnings in Short-Term Insurance Changed

With the Official Gazette dated December 27, 2024 and numbered 32765, Article 17 of the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510 was amended.

With this regulation, the calculation method of daily earnings to be taken as basis for allowances and income within the scope of short-term insurance branches (work accident, occupational disease, illness and maternity) has been amended.

Article 17 of the Social Security and General Health Insurance Law dated May 31, 2006 and numbered 5510 was amended as follows:

Daily earnings to be taken as a basis for the calculation of allowances to be paid in cases of work accident, occupational disease, illness and maternity;

• From the date of work accident or birth,
• In case of occupational disease or illness, it will be calculated according to the 12-month period before the date of incapacity for work.

Daily earnings based on the calculation of the income to be connected in case of work accident and occupational disease;

• It will be determined by dividing the sum of the premium-based earnings to be calculated according to Article 80 in the last 3 months of the 12-month period prior to the date of the work accident or the date of the onset of incapacity for work in occupational disease by the number of premium payment days based on these earnings.

However, the amount of daily earnings to be taken as the basis for the temporary incapacity benefit of those who have reported less than 180 days of short-term insurance premiums in the previous 12 months shall not exceed twice the lower limit of the daily premium-based earnings on the date of the onset of incapacity.

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