English Translation

Subject: Financial impact from January to August 1940. In response to the invitation from the Directorate of the l7.ds.Mt. to comment on the outstanding cash benefits of the 8 months of the current year and their cause, I have received my comments in the following pages: The fact that in l939 the sick person's allowance was paid 35 of the prescribed contributions and in the run-up to 8 months in l940 a further 3.5 million more was paid out than for the same period in l939, suggests that the percentage of the sickness allowance paid to the required contributions had reached the rate of 45 %, i.e. is unsustainable. After the winding-up of the sickness allowance by department V n u r can and must be carried out by the doctor's instructions, this deficiency is also only the result of the medical activity. Although in Division V, despite the medical instruction, contrary to the better knowledge of the legal provisions, the sickness allowance is pre-deposited for administrative reasons, or the justification that there is no entitlement to the aucerankengeld, since the illness was already present in employment before the accident, the savings are in the interest of the institution, but can by no means be decisive and are particularly important. Some observations explaining the longer duration of the disease and the greater number of recognised workability are: I.In the group : number of cases: a/ the fact that the treating physician acknowledges the sicn disease sufferer because he is convinced that the possible correction by dan chief medical ambulatorium takes place, a/the fact that Insured persons in their income due to the support from the XI and XII pay-class in case of sickness reports do not suffer any substantial loss of income as if he were working,especially where he had a day-to-day illness for each day of incapacity for work by existing company fund /weapon works, I.Brünner etz./ and not ultimately by the metalworkers' organisational groups in the event of illness. Today, we count 378 metal workers from the weapons plants and 557 from other iron and steel industries, together as 935 metal workers in hospitals alone.