ESIC continues to abandon adult dependents with disabilities
The benefits available under ESIC include medical treatment, maternity, pension for dependents and disablement etc.
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Updated: Mar 3, 2021, 10:00 AM IST
As the labour laws take a new look in India, the Employees' State Insurance (ESI) Act, 1948 continues to abandon the lakhs of dependent adults with disabilities.
The benefits available under ESIC include medical treatment, maternity, pension for dependents and disablement, etc. Among the benefits, it covers the treatment of the workers and their dependents including parents, siblings and children. The children remain insured until they are 25 and siblings until they are 18[1]. There is no exemption for the sons or daughters or siblings with disabilities who may continue to remain dependents, even after that age.