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Disability and incapacity
The same words mean different tests. Everyday talk, medical models, employment law, compensation schemes, and income-protection policies do not share a definition. Income protection usually assesses treated performance of material duties. Discrimination statutes often look at the unmitigated baseline. Mixing those axes is a trap.
33 contexts · Disability · Incapacity · Mitigated-state trap · Capacity ≠ performance
Occupational injury schemes
Disability / Disablement
Compensation - South Africa (COIDA)
Permanent or temporary reduction in earning capacity resulting from an occupational injury or disease.
incapacity · ZATemporary/Permanent Incapacity
Workers' Compensation - South Africa (COIDA)
Inability to work resulting from an occupational injury or disease, compensated under COIDA as temporary total, temporary partial, or permanent disablement.