pio.gov.cy (15.03.2020)
The “Support Programme” includes the following measure on sickness cash benefits:
Granting of “sickness benefit” of an average of €800 per month to workers who are dealing special health issues, cases of compulsory absence from work, persons over 63 years of age up to 65 years of age, who do not receive statutory pension and continue to work.
For the purpose of supporting self-employed workers, the sickness benefit will be granted the same way it does for employees, from the fourth day.
Granting of “sickness benefit” of an average of €800 per month to workers who are dealing special health issues, cases of compulsory absence from work, persons over 63 years of age up to 65 years of age, who do not receive statutory pension and continue to work.
For the purpose of supporting self-employed workers, the sickness benefit will be granted the same way it does for employees, from the fourth day.
Granting of “sickness benefit” of an average of €800 per month to: i. Workers who are dealing special health issues and fall within the Catalogue that has been prepared by the Ministry of Health, and who must be absent from their work in order to protect their health and not worsen it. The presentation of a certificate by their personal doctor is a prerequisite. ii. Cases of compulsory absence from work to persons under the instructions or orders of the Authorities (Category 1 [obligatory curfew under medical supervision (quarantine) and Category 2 [self-isolation under phone supervision]), given that the employees under curfew hold a certificate issued by the Ministry of Health. iii. Persons over 63 years of age up to 65 years of age, who do not receive statutory pension and continue to work and who fall within categories 1 and 2 of the Ministry of Health, given that the workers under curfew hold the certificate issued by the Ministry of Health. iv. For the purpose of supporting self-employed workers, the sickness benefit will be granted the same way it does for employees, from the fourth day.