Calculation of the tide-over allowance when placed on non-operational status due to illness

In its report to the Federal Parliament, the Belgian Court of Audit identified problems in the federal regulations on the calculation of the tide-over allowance granted to statutory civil servants whose 'sick leave days' laid down by statute have been used up. It also found that these regulations are not always correctly applied by PersoPoint, the ‘payroll services provider’ of the federal public departments (FPDs), which is part of the FPD Policy and Support (BOSA). This concerns, among other things, the application of the guarantee provisions (the tide-over allowance may not be lower than the sickness benefits for contractual employees in a similar situation or the (minimum) pension granted to people who are placed in early retirement on medical grounds). The Court therefore concluded that structural cooperation should be set up with both the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance and the Federal Pension Department. It considered that this recommendation might also largely apply to all other payroll services providers and HR departments of other public departments to which the same guarantee provisions apply.