Article 199Permanent Partial Disability

(a) Under such regulations as the Commission may approve, any employee under this Title who contracts sickness or sustains an injury resulting in permanent partial disability shall, for each month not exceeding the period designated herein, be paid by the System during such a disability an income benefit for permanent total disability. (b) The benefit shall be paid for not more than the period designated in the following schedules: Complete and permanent No. of loss of the use of: Months One thumb 10 One index finger 8 One middle finger 6 One ring finger 5 One little finger 3 One big toe 6 One toe 3 One arm 50 One hand 39 One foot 31 One leg 46 One ear 10 Both ears 20 Hearing of one ear 10 Hearing of both ears 50 Sight of one eye 25 (c) A loss of a wrist shall be considered as a loss of the hand, and a loss of an elbow shall be considered as a loss of the arm.

A loss of an ankle shall be considered as loss of a foot, and a loss of a knee shall be considered as a loss of the leg. A loss of more than one joint shall be considered as a loss of one-half of the whole finger or toe: Provided, That such a loss shall be either the functional loss of the use or physical loss of the member. (d) In case of permanent partial disability less than the total loss of the member specified in the preceding paragraph, the same monthly income benefit shall be paid for a portion of the period established for the total loss of the member in accordance with the proportion that the partial loss bears to the total loss. If the result is a Par. (b), as amended by Sec. 5 of P.D. No.

1641 (1980). Paragraphs (b) and (c), and pars. (f) and (g), as amended and added, respectively, by Sec. 7 of P.D. 1368 (1978). 30 of 159 decimal fraction, the same shall be rounded off to the next higher integer. (e) In cases of simultaneous loss of more than one member or a part thereof as specified in this Article, the same monthly income benefit shall be paid for a period equivalent to the sum of the periods established for the loss of the member or the part thereof.

If the result is a decimal fraction, the same shall be rounded off to the next higher integer. (f) In cases of injuries or illnesses resulting in a permanent partial disability not listed in the preceding schedule, the benefit shall be an income benefit equivalent to the percentage of the permanent loss of the capacity to work. (g) Under such regulations as the Commission may approve, the income benefit payable in case of permanent partial disability may be paid in monthly pension or in lump sum if the period covered does not exceed one year. CHAPTER VII Death Benefits