Glossary Entry per letter - O

The certifying bodies in the Social Insurance Institution are ZUS evaluating doctors and also - from 1 January 2005 - medical boards. The tasks of ZUS evaluating doctors include issuing decisions for pension purposes, decisions on the entitlement to the social pension, decisions establishing eligibility for the rehabilitation benefit and decisions in non-pension issues, such as: monitoring the correctness of certifying temporary incapacity for work, certifying the need for rehabilitation during the period of temporary incapacity for work, awarding the nursing supplement to pensioners, ascertaining the percentage rate of the health damage as a result of accidents at work and occupational diseases, certification in cases of benefits subject to coordination within the EU or on the advisability of vocational retraining.