Disability retirement: Back pain guarantee benefit?

Back pain can disrupt a person's day and make professional activities difficult. Many people end up being penalized for not performing their tasks properly and must leave the workplace.

However, spinal problems can complicate a person's life due to the consequences, not the disease itself. Therefore, many people are in doubt whether spinal pain can generate disability retirement.

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Can back pain give you the right to disability retirement?

Back pain can generate many problems for the well-being of the worker, making it difficult to perform the job. There are people who can work normally despite having problems in the workplace. Therefore, the worker can only seek the right to disability retirement if it is proven that back pain promotes permanent incapacity to carry out his work activities.

However, it is worth mentioning that first the INSS (National Institute of Social Security) will provide sickness benefit so that there is the possibility of rehabilitation. With this, the worker will be able to have financial help to seek adequate treatment for back pain, to return to work, if possible.

After that, the insured person can access disability retirement when it is proven that he can no longer work.

How it works?

In order to access the benefit, the worker must apply for disability retirement. In the process, it will be necessary to prove that the condition of the disease, for this, it is necessary to go through the medical examination, in which the person must undergo specific exams, submit reports and certificates that prove back pain as a reason for disability permanent.

In addition, the employee must have a 12-month contribution to social security, that is, the grace period. This is one of the necessary resources to be met in order to obtain disability retirement, however, there are specific cases in which this procedure is not necessary.