Cash sickness benefits - Allowance during illness

Assessment of dishes

Cash sickness benefits is paid if you were completely unable to work due to your own illness for at least 21 days and one of the following applies in the two months preceding your illness:

• be a worker in Iceland

  - employment abroad does not entitle you to sickness benefit

• be self-employed in Iceland

  - for the handling of cash sickness benefits, the calculated consideration paid by the

  - If an individual settles the tax 1x a year, accounts for posted work must be received

• receive unemployment benefits from the Directorate of Labour

  - must have been deregistered in sickness

• be a student and have had delays in your studies due to the illness

  - on a 75% or more basis

  - or if education and part-time work equal a combined 75% or more of education

If none of the above applies, it is sufficient that the applicant is not fully capable of household chores, according to the assessment of the doctor.

Grounds for payment

In addition, you must be:

• health insured in Iceland

• 16 years or older

• with legal domicile in Iceland

  - the right remains for 2 months after transfer abroad

• not in prison

The applicant may also not receive a concomitant payment of sickness benefits:

• wages from the employer

• payments from the Maternity/Paternity Leave Fund

• payments from the Directorate of Labour

• payments of accident-day allowance

• full pension payments from the Social Insurance Administration