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Former cop gets $3, 803 monthly for losing arm

Jul 15, 2012 News

– and that’s an increase!Edit

A career Policeman who lost his arm and suffered other injuries while raiding a ganja farm is now receiving a disability pension of $3,803 per month.
And if that paltry sum is not shocking enough, get this: that amount represents an increase in the pension he has been collecting since 1994. So you don’t want to even imagine what the original sum was.
Keith Evans himself doesn’t remember what the original sum was. If it wasn’t for the other benefits he is receiving, such as his Police pension and now, having reached 60, his National Insurance Scheme Pension, Evans shudders to think how he would have managed.
Evans joined the Police Force in June 1969 and went on to serve for over 40 years.
In 1990, he was part of the Narcotics Squad attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).
Evans and other officers were sent to raid a ganja farm in the Demerara River. During the operation, something exploded and took off Evans’ left arm from the elbow down.
He wrote the NIS for benefits, and went back to work. As he was no longer able to carry on the same job, he was assigned to the Criminal Records Office.
After two years of running around, the NIS decided that they would grant Evans a disability pension. That’s what now adds up to $3,803 per month. At the time, Evans had two children at home and a wife to take care of.
The Police Force decided to send him off with a pension in February 1994. He found other work to make a living and continues to collect his Disability Pension cheques.
Under the NIS, Disablement Benefit is payable to an Insured Person who has suffered loss of Faculty due to an Industrial Accident.
There are no Contributions Conditions to be satisfied.
The rate of benefit depends on an assessment of the “Degree of Disablement” made and stated in the form of a percentage.
Recipients of Disablement Pension are issued with “Pension Order” Books, which usually contain six (6) Benefit Payment Vouchers to be encashed on a monthly basis. New books are prepared and issued upon submission of “Life Certificates” which attest to the Pensioner being alive.
A Claim for Disablement Benefit must be made by the completion of Form IB22 – Claim for Disablement Benefit, and a Medical Certificate, to the nearest National Insurance Office.

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