40 new illnesses could give rise to a lifetime pension: the list

Certain illnesses impact daily life and income. This is the case for occupational diseases. There are thousands of them in France, classified in 121 tables for compensation from the general Social Security system and 66 tables for the agricultural system. Paintings judged “obsolete” by the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES). She wants them to be updated and envisages the entry of around forty additional diseases.

Among these diseases are around twenty cancers affecting different organs (bronchopulmonary cancers by inhalation, ovarian and larynx cancers associated with exposure to asbestos dust, cancer of the bladder, liver, colon, etc. .), non-cancerous diseases such as knee osteoarthritis, coxarthrosis, vitiligo, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disorders (Metabolic syndrome), stroke, mental illnesses (depression, anxiety and depressive disorders, anxiety, reaction to a severe stressor), asthma, hytadiosis or even sleep disorders due to night work (full list at the bottom of the ANSES press release) .

In the same way as the pathologies currently appearing on the list of compensable occupational diseases, the recognition of these 40 “new” diseases could give rise to compensation.. An employee whose illness is recognized as “occupational” may receive daily allowances to compensate for loss of salary during a period of temporary incapacity for work but also specific allowances and an annuity if their incapacity is permanent. Depending on its after-effects, a permanent incapacity rate (IPP) is assigned by Health Insurance.

If the IPP rate is equal to or greater than 10%, the employee receives his pension until his death. The pension is calculated on the basis of the annual salary multiplied by the disability rate. For example, for a person who has an annual salary of 20,000 euros and a IPP rate of 75%, their annual pension will be 12,500 euros per year (or 1,042 euros per month). Pensions are paid quarterly when the rate of permanent incapacity is between 10 and 50%, or each month when the rate of incapacity is greater than or equal to 50%.

For the moment and at the request of the General Directorate of Labor, the Directorate of Social Security and the General Secretariat of the Ministry in charge of Agriculture, ANSES must provide scientific elements which would make it possible to justify the update of these tables. As a reminder, any revision of these tables is based on a decision by the State after consulting the occupational disease commissions.