To properly use and maximise the benefits of your insurance:
- Know and understand very well its provisions, contents, benefits and coverage
- Pay the fees regularly and timely (if the insurance is paid by the employer, check regularly if it is timely paid; if not, report to the employer or recruiter)
- Secure copies of the forms that will be used if you avail of the benefits
- Know the contact information of the nearest office where you can submit your claims
- Keep duplicate copies of any medical results, doctors’ prescriptions, receipts or invoice, etc.
A Bangladeshi Migrant can avail following benefits from Wage earners welfare board:
- Carrying & Burial Cost to migrants
- Death Compensation
- Burial of Dead Body
- Financial Grant to deceased migrant’s family member
- Financial assistance to injured / sick workers
- Ambulance help for disabled and sick migrant workers
- Scholarship to the children of migrants
- protect migrant workers and eliminate various difficulties in providing assistance to the local administration.
- Removal detained activists abroad
- Bringing women workers back to the country
- Safe Home
