Injuries of the visual system, art. 24
Recipients: (art. 2) (art. 2 modified by INAIL resolution n. 9/2009)
All workers who had suffered a work accident or who are suffering from an occupational disease are entitled to benefits of prosthetic assistance according to the New prosthetic regulations and the decree n. 1124/ 1965.
Requirements for entitlement to the benefit:
a) recipients of INAIL annuity with expired review date according to the articles 83, 137, 230 of the decree 1124/1965,
b) Disabled who had received payment in capital, according to the stopped protection laws about work accident or occupational disease injuries.
Article 24
Work related disabled who suffering from injuries of the visual system are entitled to:
- Simple functional troubles: a pair of appropriate glasses;
- Unilateral amaurosis with preservation of eyeball: a pair of tinted protective glasses, or corrective glasses if not injured eye have pre-existent errors of refraction;
- Difference of refraction between the eyes (unilateral aphakia, astigmatism with cicatricial retraction, keratoconus,. etc.) and, in any case of clear intolerance to wear the glasses: a contact lens for injured eye;
- Unilateral and bilateral aphakia: artificial intraocular lenses.
Contact lenses and intraocular lenses:
It is necessary to consider the tolerance to the device, the age of the subject, and the type of employment. May be authorized, according to the above cited conditions, in cases of unilateral ocular work injury and pre-existent damage of contralateral eye, according to Articles 79, 8O, 81, 82 of the decree 1124/1965;
Unilateral anophthalmos,
- a pair of tinted protective glasses, or corrective glasses if not injured eye have pre-existent errors of refraction, as well as ocular prosthesis made to measures;
- two glass prostheses;
- an ocular resin prosthesis when glass is not appropriate;
- a resin prosthesis made with the technique of print, when the eye cavity have a severe damage and/or tolerate other type of prosthesis with difficulty.
Sub atrophic eyeballs or insufficient anophtalmos cavities, prosthesis made to measures:
- two glass shell-shaped prostheses;
- a resin shell-shaped prosthesis when the glass is not appropriate;
- a resin prosthesis made with the technique of print when the sub atrophic eyeballs have preserved a certain sensitivity and tolerate other type of prosthesis with difficulty.
Total blindness: a pair of tinted glasses and crystal or resin prosthesis when it's possible.
The request:
- Can be submitted by the concerned person to the nearest INAIL unit by INAIL social worker.
- May be proposed by INAIL unit.
The supply of required device, will be preceded by an evaluation by the Multidisciplinary team
Renewal: (art 20)
Optical devices
- Corrective glasses, 1 year
- Protective tinted glasses, 2 years
- Contact lenses, 3 years
Ocular prosthesis
- Glass prosthesis, 1 year
- Resin prosthesis, 2 years
Aids for blindness:
- White cane
- Touch pocket watch or wrist watch
- To prostheses, devices or therapeutic aids for which the renewal time is not explicitly stated, supply shall be extended according to the state of wear.
Maintenance and Repairs (art. 19)
- INAIL pays for repairs of devices.
- The insured pays for ordinary maintenance.
In case of theft or loss of the device received, supply can be granted only another time, before the end of the renewal time, with the copy of the complaint made to the competent authorities.
For devices supplied to minors, not apply the minimum time for renewal.
Territorial INAIL unit authorizes renewals and/or repairs of the technical devices also to adapt them to the growth of the child.
For further information:
- Ancillary economic benefits
- Guide to INAIL benefits
- The INAIL Services Charter
- INAIL publications: rehabilitation and reintegration
- Motor rehabilitation centre of Volterra
- Client Points
- Outpatient rehabilitation care at the premises of INAIL Institute
- vai alla traduzione in lingua italiana: Nuovo Regolamento Protesico, Titolo II da art. 24 a 30
INAIL, prostheses and therapeutic aids
- Medical service, for workers injured at work or suffering from occupational disease, supply methods.
Work
- INAIL, return to work
- INAIL, Interventions for rehabilitation in order to return to work
Therapeutic aids
- guide-dog: an aid for movement
Taxation
IVA tax relief
- Car: IVA tax relief 4% for the blind
Tax allowance and deductions
- Car: "IRPEF" 19% for the blind
Other tax break
- Road tax exemption for the blind
Welfare and economic assistance
- Notional contributions for blind workers
Reference regulations:
- Decree of the President of the Republic n° 1124/1965
- Law n° 833/1978
- Law n° 13/1989
- Decree of the Ministry of Health n° 332/1999
- INAIL Circolare n° 54/2000
- Resolution C.d.A. n° 23 of the 22nd January 2007
- INAIL rule of implementation of the Legislative decree n° 38/2000
Scheda elaborata da: Rosanna Giovèdi; traduzione a cura di Lidia Vitale