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Main information about the service
The disability pension is a pension benefit used to provide financial support to people whose illness or infirmity prevents them from fully engaging in work in the long term. For persons who are not/have not been members of the armed forces, the Czech Social Security Administration is responsible for processing the application for a disability pension.
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You are an insured person who is not/has not been a member of the armed forces, has not reached the age of 65 and has become:
- disabled in one of the three degrees of disability, and has also completed the required period of pensionable service,
- disabled as a result of an accident at work.
You will not be entitled to an disability pension if you were eligible for an ordinary old-age pension on the date you became disabled, or if you have been granted an early old-age pension and have reached retirement age.
Disability
The fact of whether and to what degree you are disabled is assessed by the district social security administration's medical assessor. Disability is a long-term illness or infirmity that reduces your ability to work by at least 35%, i.e. your ability to engage in gainful activity has decreased by at least 35% compared to before the long-term illness or infirmity arose, due to limitations in your physical, sensory and mental abilities.
There are three degrees of disability:
- First-degree disability – working capacity reduced by 35% to 49%
- Second-degree disability – working capacity reduced by 50% to 69%
- Second-degree disability - working capacity reduced by 70% to 69%
Required period of insurance
The required period of insurance is determined from the period before the disability occurred, and its length depends on the age of the insurance policyholder:
| Age | Required period of insurance including substitute periods |
| up to 20 years of age | less than 1 year of insurance (i.e. one day is enough) |
| 20-22 years of age | 1 year |
| 22-24 years of age | 2 years |
| 24-26 years of age | 3 years |
| 26-28 years of age | 4 years |
| 28 years of age or more | 5 years |
- In the case of persons over the age of 28, the required period of insurance shall be determined from the last 10 years before the disability began; in such cases, the condition of the required period of insurance is also be deemed to have been fulfilled if it was acquired in any 10-year period completed after the disability began.
- For persons over the age of 38, the necessary period of insurance is also be deemed to have been fulfilled if the person had acquired 10 years of insurance in the last 20 years before the disability began.
The necessary period of insurance is not required in the case of disability resulting from an accident at work or occupational disease.
In addition to the disability pension for first-, second- or third-degree disability, there is also a ‘youth disabilitypension’, which is available to a person who:
1. is at least 18 years of age,
2. is registered as a permanent resident in the Czech Republic,
3. has a third-degree disability, the disability having arisen before the age of 18, and
4. has not been covered by insurance for the required period of time.
Service outcome
Granting of a disability pension.
Service benefit
An insurance policyholder whose ability to engage in gainful activity has decreased by at least 35% as a result of a long-term illness or infirmity will start receiving financial support in the form of an disability pension, as follows:
- from the date the disability began, as determined by the medical assessor, or from the day following the date on which sickness benefit payments cease, if the conditions for entitlement to and payment of the pension are met at the relevant date,
- up to the date the disability ceased, i.e. when it is established at the medical check-up that the policyholder no longer has even a first-degree disability
Beneficiaries of disability pensions (all three degrees of disability) may continue to work as much as they are able. Gainful activity therefore does not render you ineligible to a disability pension or the payment of a disability pension.
When to address the service
Back to topYou can apply for a disability pension at any time (preferably after consulting your doctor) if your state of health prevents you from fully engaging in work for a long period time. A disability pension can be granted no earlier than from the date the disability began as determined by the medical assessor.
You may also apply for a pension retrospectively, but it will be paid no more than 5 years retrospectively from the date you applied for the pension.
The individual applied for a disability pension on 2 May 2020. The date of the disability began was determined by the medical assessor retrospectively as 13 February 2014. The Czech Social Security Administration will grant the pension from 13 February 2014, but will only pay it 5 years retrospectively from the date the pension application was filed, i.e. from 2 May 2015.
How to get the service
What do you need when solving the service electronically
You must be able to log in with a citizen identity or have a data box for a natural person data box set up.
If you live in another EU country and have an electronic identity issued by that country (according to the eIDAS regulation), you can use the IIG (International ID Gateway) to register.
Where and how to solve the service electronically
You submit your application via the CSSS ePortal Pension application online to the territorial social security administration of your choice.
You decide whether you want to apply for an invalidity pension and when you want to apply. Your identification data, data on insurance periods and assessment bases that the CSSA has about you will be automatically loaded into the application. You can document insurance periods and other documents that are not registered in the service by inserting electronic originals or scanned documents. If there is any doubt as to the authenticity of the scanned documents, the CSSS or the territorial social security administration may require them to be converted by means of an authorised conversion or the presentation of the original or its officially certified copy in documentary form.
You can save the application you are working on in the CSSZ ePortal at any time, e.g. if you want to think about something in peace or if you realise that you are missing some documents. Just click on the Finish button and a window will appear asking you to save the application.
If you need professional help to complete the application, the online pension application includes the service "Book an appointment online with a CSSA staff member" for a date and time of your choice. At the appointed time, you will log in to the CSSZ ePortal (using your identification data) and you will receive online assistance in completing the application. The only equipment required for the online consultation is a microphone and a loudspeaker/headset at your end.
Once you have sent your application, you will receive an electronic acknowledgement of receipt.
Subsequent communication with you (if necessary for the processing of your application) will take place via the CSSS ePortal. If you choose not to use this method of communication, it will be in paper form or via a data box.
The rest of the procedure is the same as steps 2 to 6 described in section "Where and how to solve the service".
e-Government portal
ePodáníCould be solved via e-identity
No
Is the service charged when solving electronically
No
What you’ll need to provide
When you apply for a disability pension, you must submit the originals or certified copies of the following documents:
- ID card (passport or residence permit for foreign nationals),
- proof of studies or apprenticeship (e.g. secondary school leaving certificate, apprenticeship certificate, index, diploma, confirmation from the school),
- proof of the time spent in military service,
- documents proving the upbringing or care of children (e.g. the children’s birth certificates, adoption or custody judgement), if the competent social security administration cannot verify the above in the population registration system,
- proof of periods of insurance or substitute periods of insurance which are not on the records of the authority deciding on the benefit,
- a form requesting that the pension be paid by transfer to an account in the Czech Republic or by transfer to the account of a spouse in the Czech Republic (or a form requesting that a person living outside the Czech Republic have the pension paid to an account held with a bank abroad or a bank in the Czech Republic),
- a certificate from your employer stating the amount of compensation paid if you are receiving/have received compensation for loss of earnings after incapacity for work due to an occupational accident or disease.
If you are applying for a pension not only from the Czech Republic, but also from another EU Member State or from a state with which the Czech Republic has concluded a bilateral social security agreement, we recommend that you also attach documents proving the period for which you were employed/insured abroad, if available. However, it is not necessary to provide a certificate from the competent pension institution abroad stating the period of insurance in that country. The Czech Social Security Administration will request this confirmation from the institution itself.
An overview of the countries with which the Czech Republic has concluded a bilateral social security treaty can be found on the website of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Where to solve the service
As a person who is not/has not been a member of the armed forces, you must apply for a pension in person, or by proxy through your representative, at the district social security administration competent for your place of residence, in Prague at the Prague Social Security Administration and in Brno at the Municipal Social Security Administration. A member of the Social Security Administration will draw up the application with you on the prescribed form.
If a person is unable to file an application alone for health reasons, their family members may file an application on their behalf, provided that they agree to it, on the basis of a doctor's certificate confirming that person’s state of health.
The process of assessing your disability when your application is received. The assessment is carried out on behalf of the competent district social security administration by a medical assessor. The bases on which the doctor assesses disability include:
- information about your health prepared and provided by your doctor,
- medical reports and findings submitted by you that you possess and consider relevant,
- an ‘occupational questionnaire’ with information about your qualifications and the length and type of gainful activities you have been engaged in, which the relevant social security administration will send you to complete.
The actual disability assessment carried out by the medical assessor usually takes place in your absence, based on all the medical reports and documents mentioned above. However, if the supporting documents are insufficient for the assessment, you will be asked to see a medical assessor who will then assess your condition in your presence.
The result of the disability assessment process is a disability report from the medical assessor, which will be sent to you within 7 days of the report being made.
The competent social security administration shall forward the disability assessment together with the pension application to the Czech Social Security Administration, which is competent to decide on the entitlement to and amount of pensions for persons who are not/have not been members of the armed forces. The deadline for processing the application is 90 days. However, this deadline may be extended by the period during which facts that are decisive for the entitlement to pension, its amount or payment are investigated and the Czech Social Security Administration does not have them in its records (e.g. undocumented missing insurance period in the Czech Republic, time spent employed/insured abroad).
If the Czech Social Security Administration does not have the facts decisive for your entitlement to the pension or the amount or payment of the pension, you (as well as your employer or insurance provider abroad) may be asked to provide them. It is obligatory to comply with this request within 8 days of its receipt. You can provide proof or certification of these facts either in person at the District Social Security Administration/Prague Social Security Administration/Municipal Social Security Administration in Brno according to your place of residence, or by sending it by post directly to the address of the Czech Social Security Administration, or by sending a data message to the data box of the Czech Social Security Administration or by sending a data message with a recognised electronic signature to its electronic filing address. Contact details can be found on the Czech Social Security Administration website.
Once the Czech Social Security Administration has all the necessary documents, it will decide on your application for a disability pension. If you meet the eligibility conditions, the Czech Social Security Administration will send you a written decision on the granting of the pension, stating the date from which the pension will be paid and in what amount. This is accompanied by a personal pension certificate, which contains a summary of the accountable insurance periods, including substitute insurance periods and assessment bases. If you do not meet the eligibility conditions, the Czech Social Security Administration will send you a written decision rejecting your application for a disability pension, stating the reasons for the rejection.
If you have been awarded an disability pension, the Czech Social Security Administration will pay it out on the payment date you chose when you applied for the pension.
Is the service charged when solving in person?
No
Responsible Public Authority
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Ministerstvo práce a sociálních věcí Na Poříčním právu 376/1 Nové Město 12800 Praha 2 |
Datová schránka: sc9aavg E-mail: posta@mpsv.cz Web: https://www.mpsv.cz/ |
Additional information about the service
Back to topSanctions
If you do not undergo a medical check-up or other professional examination, even though you have been requested to do so by the Czech Social Security Administration, your pension benefit may be stopped if you have been warned of the consequence of this in the request.
At the request of the Czech Social Security Administration, you are also obliged to submit any medical findings by your attending doctors you might have for the purpose of assessing the impact on your capacity to work and to provide information on your education, experience and expertise, previous gainful activities and changes in the reported facts that have occurred since the previous assessment of the impact on your capacity to work within 8 days of receiving the request, unless the Czech Social Security Administration has set a longer deadline. If you fail to comply with this obligation, your pension may also be stopped if you have been warned of the consequence of this in the request.
If there is a change in the facts relevant to your entitlement to a disability pension, you must report it to the Czech Social Security Administration within 8 days.
If you receive a disability pension or part thereof, even though the circumstances may suggest that it was paid wrongly or at an amount higher than due, you are obliged to refund the amounts wrongly paid.
Communication language
Czech
Last checked at 01.01.2024
