“Pensions”: The opinion of the consulting doctor is not binding to prove health inadequacy

14 diseases that lead to medical retirement due to inability to work

The "Pensions" launched an orientation campaign to familiarize the insured with the concept, reasons and mechanisms of medical retirement.

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The General Pension and Social Security Authority has published a list of 14 types of cases and diseases that may be submitted to the Medical Retirement Committee to prove the state of inability to work, most notably “cancer diseases, heart diseases, blood diseases, kidney failure, memory loss (Alzheimer’s), stroke.” In addition to other diseases that are subject to evaluation by the committee, which may seek the opinions of consultant doctors regarding the cases presented to it, provided that the doctor’s decision is not binding on the committee to prove the insured’s inability or health unfitness to work.

In detail, the General Pension and Social Security Authority reported that the Medical Retirement Committee is a medical committee that was formed pursuant to Ministerial Resolution No. 924 of 2014 issued by the Minister of Health on June 22, 2014. Its membership includes specialized doctors and officials from the Ministry of Health and Community Protection, the Dubai Health Authority and the private sector. It also includes in its membership a coordinator on behalf of the authority, pointing out that this committee is the only authority competent to establish cases of total disability or health unfitness of the insured or the inability to earn for the beneficiaries for the purposes of entitlement to the pension from the authority.

The authority stated, during an awareness and guidance campaign that it recently launched on its official platforms on social media, to familiarize insured citizens working for government and private agencies with the concept, reasons and mechanisms of medical retirement, that the powers of the Medical Retirement Committee are to request a comprehensive report on the job of the applicant for retirement, and about The nature of the tasks he exercises in his work, and the advice of a consultant doctor if necessary, provided that his decision is not binding if the committee decides to take it or reject it according to the data, with the reasons mentioned in its report regarding the applicant for retirement.

She pointed out that it is valid for this committee to meet in the presence of its chairman and two of its members, so that its decisions are issued unanimously or by the majority of the members present. The authority indicated that requests for the insured in the government sector are submitted by his employer directly to the medical committee competent to prove these cases, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Community Protection, while the insured working in the private sector is submitted by his employer to the Pensions Authority, which You, in turn, submit your application to this committee.The authority stressed that the medical committee concerned with pension affairs is the only authority concerned with proving cases of total disability or unfitness for the insured, or the inability to earn for the beneficiaries for the purposes of pension entitlement from the authority, noting that there are requirements that the insured and the beneficiaries must fulfill before submitting their application. The competent medical committee, for the purposes of proving a case of total disability, health unfitness for service or inability to earn, the most important of which is to provide a recent medical report from the treating physician in a government hospital, as well as request a comprehensive report on the job of the applicant for retirement and the nature of the tasks he exercises in his work.The authority published a list of 14 types of cases and diseases that may be submitted to the committee to prove the state of disability, varying in type and degree, including “cancer, heart disease, blood disease, kidney failure, memory loss (Alzheimer), stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. Paralysis, neurosurgery, rheumatic diseases, eye diseases, psychiatric diseases, internal diseases”, in addition to other diseases that may lead to total or partial disability according to the decision and discretion of the committee that holds its sessions at least once a month at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health and Prevention in the Emirate of Dubai .

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The General Pension and Social Security Authority pointed out that as soon as the insured person’s disability or health unfitness for service is established by a decision of the committee and his service is terminated, the pension shall be paid to him from the day following the end of the service, regardless of his age and the length of his service registered with the authority, explaining that after the issuance of the decision, the The employer shall provide the Authority with the file of the insured’s end of service and all the required documents, including the decision of the competent medical committee through the application of the end of service available on the Authority’s website within a month at most from the date of termination of his service.

• The medical committee specialized in the affairs of pensions, the only one concerned with proving cases of disability.

• Requests for the insured in the government sector are submitted by his employer directly to the competent medical committee.

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