Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 2077

Prescription of the employee's right to claim his prescribed financial entitlements upon the lapse of one year from the date of his knowledge of these entitlements or five years from the date of entitlement, whichever period is earlier. Article 21, Law 15 of 1979 concerning the Civil Service. A judgment's departure from this view. Renders it defective for violation of the law. An example concerning housing allowance. Prescription of actions arising under the Social Insurance Law*: