ESI Notification – eligibility condition of the ESIC COVID-19 Relief Scheme Relaxed

The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation has decided to relax the eligibility condition of
the scheme are as under:-
“The deceased Insured Person must have been in employment on the date of diagnosis of COVID19 disease and contributions for at least 35 days should have been paid or payable in respect of him/her
during a period of a maximum of one year immediately preceding the diagnosis of COVID-19 disease resulting
in death.”