The majority of absences from work in the first seven months of 2021 were because of Covid-19. Leaves of more than 15 days generated the greatest amount of disability benefits in the period.
68,014 benefits were granted to policyholders with the illness, more than half (54.5%) of the sickness benefits in the whole year of 2020, which totaled 2,341,029 requests. The data are from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and were released by the G1 portal.
+ São Paulo registers the lowest number of internees per covid since April 2020
Covid-19 was the third largest cause of disability benefit awards last year and was second only to back and shoulder problems.
In 2019, 37,045 benefit claims were granted because of the disease.
Post Covid-19 generated most of the requests for benefits due to time off work, which appeared first in ISTOÉ DINHEIRO.