Temporary disablement Benefit (TDB)
Daily rate

The daily rate of temporary disablement benefit is 40% more than the standard benefit rate  corresponding to the average daily wages in the contribution period corresponding to the benefit period in which employment injury occurs.

Where an employment injury occurs before the commencement of the first benefit period in respect of a person, the daily rate of disablement shall be -

• Where a person sustains employment injury after the expiry of first wage period in the contribution period in which the injury occurs, the rate forty percent more than the standard benefit rate rounded off to the next higher multiple of five paise corresponding to the wage group in which his average daily wages during that wage period, fall.
• Where a person sustains employment injury before the expiry of the first wage period in the contribution period in which the injury occurs, the rate, forty percent more than the standard benefit rate, rounded off to the next higher multiple of five paise corresponding to the group in which the wages actually earned or which would have been earned, had he worked for a full day on the date of accident, fall.