Article 121
1. A member of the contract staff who is suffering from total invalidity and who, for that reason, is obliged to suspend employment with the Agency shall be entitled, for as long as the invalidity lasts, to an invalidity allowance, the amount of which shall be determined as follows. If a member of the contract staff who is a recipient of an invalidity allowance reaches pensionable age, the general rules on severance grant shall be applied. The amount of the severance grant shall be based on the salary for the grade and step occupied by the member of the contract staff when he became an invalid. 2. The invalidity allowance shall be 70 % of the final basic salary of the member of the contract staff. However, it shall not be less than the basic monthly salary of a member of the contract staff in function group I, grade 1, step 1. The invalidity allowance shall be subject to contributions to the pension scheme, calculated on the basis of that allowance. 3. Where the invalidity of the contract staff member arises from an accident in the course of or in connection with the performance of his duties, from an occupational disease, from a public spirited act or from risking life and limb to save another human being, the invalidity allowance shall not be less than 120 % of the basic monthly salary of a function group I, grade 1, step 1 contract staff member. In such cases the pension contributions shall be borne by the budget of the former employer. 4. In the case of invalidity deliberately brought about by the contract staff member, the AACC may decide that he should receive only the grant provided for in Article 129. 5. Persons entitled to an invalidity allowance shall also be entitled to the family allowances determined in accordance with Article 60(3); in accordance with Annex IV, the household allowance shall be determined on the basis of the recipient's allowance.