Nearly six million people suffer from diabetes in our country. This disorder, which causes low levels of insulin in type 1 (the less common) and causes the body’s resistance to said substance and the consequent increase in blood glucose level in type 2 (the most common), can lead to entitle the person who suffers it to a permanent disability pension if they meet very specific requirements.
The , of procedure for the recognition, declaration and qualification of the degree of disability makes it clear that “the diagnosis of the disease is not an assessment criterion in itself” and that the assessment of the possible disability takes into account “the severity of the consequences” of the disease.
This means that the fact of having diabetes (or any other ailment, whatever) does not mean ‘per se’ that you are entitled to a disability pension. It will be the seriousness of its consequences that can allow the worker to access it, if they affect him in his professional or personal life.
In the case of diabetes, it can lead to ailments such as blurred vision or eye problems, fatigue, weight loss, numbness or tingling in the extremities…these are some of the symptoms and they are some of the ones that could affect the person in his usual job or even in his daily routine.
To measure disability and include it in a scale based on its severity, the aforementioned Royal Decree marks classes from one to five that function differently in each disease. For diabetes, the first two classes (1 and 2) entail disabilities ranging from 0 to 24%:
-Class 1 occurs in diagnosed patients who remain asymptomatic and require pharmacological and/or dietary treatment.
-Class 2 occurs in diagnosed patients who remain asymptomatic and who, with correct dietary and pharmacological treatment, cannot repeatedly maintain adequate metabolic control. In this class you can be entitled to a disability from 1 to 24%.
The most serious situations of diabetes
Apart from these cases, the regulations include special situations in which disability increases. Thus, people who “for reasons other than inadequate therapeutic control” are hospitalized for acute decompensation of their diabetes up to three times a year and lasting more than 48 hours each, will be in class 3 and will have a percentage of disability between 25 and 49%.
If, with the same characteristics as in the previous case, the number of hospitalizations is more than three per year, the person will have a class 4, with a disability percentage of between 50 and 70%.
Having clear these percentages and the impact of the disease on professional life (it will mark it more to propose a hypothetical pension to the Security), it would only be possible with these last two cases, the special ones, to receive a disability pension.
The limit is set by the 33% referred to as partial permanent disability, the lowest degree of all. If the patient’s diabetes causes this loss at work, but does not disable him for his usual work, he could be entitled to it, .
If, on the other hand, diabetes disqualifies him from his current job but allows him to perform other different jobs, the worker would be entitled to a total permanent disability pension. If he were unable to work, he would aspire to an absolute permanent disability pension. In the event that the illness made him dependent and he needed the “assistance of another person for the most essential acts of life”, he would be entitled to a severe disability pension.
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