ZUS: About one out of five people going on sick leave are actually healthy

Over 22% of people going on sick leave are in fact able to work. For example, in March doctors from the Social Insurance Company (ZUS) examined 17,700 people going on sick leave and decided that 4000 of them should not be receiving sick leave benefits, leading to savings of zl. 603,000. (Rzeczpospolita, page A2) T.J.