Section 22 — HOUSEWIVES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 2022

(a)

medical benefit;

(b)

permanent disablement benefit;

(c)

constant attendance allowance;

(d)

survivors’ pension;

(e)

funeral benefit.

(2)

Subject to this Act, an insured housewife or their dependants, as the case may be, shall be entitled for invalidity benefits as follows:

(a)

morbid allowance;

(b)

constant attendance allowance;

(c)

survivors’ pension;

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(d)

funeral benefit.

(3)

If an insured housewife suffers from end stage renal failure, the Organization may provide financial assistance at the rate as specified in the Fifth Schedule.

(4)

A dependant shall not be entitled to any benefit under this Act if the Organization has reasonable grounds to believe that an insured housewife dies as a result of domestic violence committed by the dependant or any other act or omission with intent by or on behalf of the dependant, and the entitlement of that dependant shall not be transferable to any other dependant.

(5)

For the purposes of subsection (4), “domestic violence” means the commission of one or more of the following acts:

(a)

causing physical injury to the insured housewife by such act which is known or ought to have been known would result in physical injury;

(b)

compelling the insured housewife by force or threat in engaging in any conduct or act, sexual or otherwise, from which the insured housewife has a right to abstain;

(c)

confining or detaining the insured housewife against the insured housewife’s will;

(d)

causing psychological abuse which includes emotional injury to the insured housewife;

(e)

causing the insured housewife to suffer delusions by using any intoxicating substance or any other substance without the insured housewife’s consent or if the consent is given, the consent was unlawfully obtained.

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Medical benefit