Wear and tear allowance is also known as actual service allowance. Wear and tear allowance, meaning actual service allowance, is applied to 4/A insured individuals and 4/C insured individuals. There is no actual service allowance for 4/B insured individuals, i.e., Bağ-Kur insured individuals.
The professions that will benefit from the actual service allowance, which closely concerns employees, are specified in the actual service chart.
Which Professions Have Actual Service Allowance?
Lead and arsenic, glass industry, mercury production, cement factories, coke plants and thermal power plants, aluminum factories, iron and steel factories, underwater professions, underground workers, foundry factories, places where acid is produced, those working in radiological environments, officers, privates or corporals in the Turkish Armed Forces, members of the police and MIT, firefighters and fire extinguishing personnel, journalists working according to the press card regulation, members of the legislative body of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and ministers appointed from outside receive actual service allowance. Employees who should receive actual service allowance but do not receive it can claim their rights by filing a lawsuit in the Labor Court.
