Apply for Reduced Earnings Allowance

If you can't earn as much as you normally could because of an accident or disease caused by your work, you may be able to get Reduced Earnings Allowance (REA).

How to use this service

Use the links below to download and complete a claim form or contact the Social Security Agency for a claim form.

Claim Online

You cannot claim Reduced Earnings Allowance online.

Download a form

Reduced Earnings Allowance form:

• Reduced Earnings Allowance Form BI 103 (PDF 105KB)
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You make a claim by printing out a claim form and filling it in. When you have filled in the form you can either:

• post it to the office whose details are shown on the form, or
• hand it in at your nearest Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)

Important: The date the claim form is received in a Social Security Agency office is the date we can consider payment from - not the date you downloaded the claim form.

Ask for a form

You can get Reduced Earnings Allowance forms from the Social Security Agency.  Contact one of their offices.

• Industrial Injuries Branch (contacts section)
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)
• Benefit Shop Castle Court (contacts section)

More useful links

• Reduced Earnings Allowance (money, tax and benefits)