The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has expanded its list of critical illnesses eligible under its Health Withdrawals from 13 illnesses to 36 effective 15 June 2010. The list of critical illnesses as below :
1. Aplastic Anaemia
2. Appalic Syndrome
3. Alzheimer’s Disease
4. Benign Tumour of the Brain
5. Blindness
6. Cancer
7. Cardiomyopathy
8. Chronic Liver Disease
9. Chronic Lung Disease
10. Coma
11. Coronary Artery Disease
12. Deafness
13. Encephalitis
14. Fulminant Viral Hepatitis
15. Heart Attack
16. Heart Valve Replacement
17. Kidney Failure
18. Loss of Independent Existence
19. Loss of Speech
20. Major Burns
21. Major Head Trauma
22. Major Organ Transplant
23. Medullary Cystic Disease
24. Meningitis
25. Motor Neurone Disease
26. Multiple Sclerosis
27. Muscular Dystrophy
28. Paralysis
29. Parkinson’s Disease
30. Poliomyelitis
31. Primary Pulmonary
32. Stroke
33. Surgery to Aorta
34. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Lupus Nephritis
35. Terminal Illness
36. Total Permanent Disability
In addition to the 36 critical illnesses, members could now make withdrawals to treat family members below the age of 16 for another three critical illnesses, namely severe asthma, leukaemia and intellectual impairment due to accident or sickness.
Under the EPF Health Withdrawal scheme, members are allowed to withdraw from their Account 2 to pay for their own and family members's medical costs for the treatment of critical illnesses.
According to EPF, members were not eligible for the withdrawal if the medical treatment cost was fully covered by their employer or if they were receiving fertility or alternative treatments.
1. Aplastic Anaemia
2. Appalic Syndrome
3. Alzheimer’s Disease
4. Benign Tumour of the Brain
5. Blindness
6. Cancer
7. Cardiomyopathy
8. Chronic Liver Disease
9. Chronic Lung Disease
10. Coma
11. Coronary Artery Disease
12. Deafness
13. Encephalitis
14. Fulminant Viral Hepatitis
15. Heart Attack
16. Heart Valve Replacement
17. Kidney Failure
18. Loss of Independent Existence
19. Loss of Speech
20. Major Burns
21. Major Head Trauma
22. Major Organ Transplant
23. Medullary Cystic Disease
24. Meningitis
25. Motor Neurone Disease
26. Multiple Sclerosis
27. Muscular Dystrophy
28. Paralysis
29. Parkinson’s Disease
30. Poliomyelitis
31. Primary Pulmonary
32. Stroke
33. Surgery to Aorta
34. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Lupus Nephritis
35. Terminal Illness
36. Total Permanent Disability
In addition to the 36 critical illnesses, members could now make withdrawals to treat family members below the age of 16 for another three critical illnesses, namely severe asthma, leukaemia and intellectual impairment due to accident or sickness.
Under the EPF Health Withdrawal scheme, members are allowed to withdraw from their Account 2 to pay for their own and family members's medical costs for the treatment of critical illnesses.
According to EPF, members were not eligible for the withdrawal if the medical treatment cost was fully covered by their employer or if they were receiving fertility or alternative treatments.
For more information, log on to www.kwsp.gov.my, contact EPF's call centre at 03-8922-6000 or visit its nearest branch
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