For short-term disability, Workers' Comp pays a portion of your lost wages and reimburses all qualifying medical expenses. Permanent total disability (unable to work any job) provides medical care relating to the injury and weekly benefits or a lump-sum settlement. Other categories include permanent partial disability (loss of a finger, for example), disfigurement (scarring), and death benefits. We work to ensure you receive all rightful benefits.

There are three elements to qualifying for COBRA benefits. COBRA establishes specific criteria for plans, qualified beneficiaries, and qualifying events: Plan Coverage - Group health plans for employers with 20 or more employees on more than 50 percent of its typical business days in the previous calendar year are subject to COBRA. Both full and part-time employees are counted to determine whether a plan is subject to COBRA. See similar questions...

Basically, the sick leave provided by the employer is the TDI benefits for a state or county employee. However, if your combined total of used and unused sick leave credits within a benefit year is less than three weeks prior to the disability, you may be entitled to additional TDI benefits. See similar questions...

You are entitled to income replacement benefits if you miss more than three (3) days from work. If you miss more than 14 days you will also be paid for the first three days, provided your employer did not pay you for any of these days. When your claim is received by the Commission (in the mail) a claim number and a "consideration date" is assigned to it. The consideration date means that we allow your employer or his insurer until that date to raise any objections they may have to your claim. See similar questions...

Injured employees can recover 2/3 of their gross wages subject to a statutory maximum. Under current Florida Law, an injured worker is able to recover lost wages for a very limited period of time before reaching maximum medical improvement by his authorized doctor. See similar questions...

Not necessarily. Holidays and Sundays are normal workdays insofar as wage and hour laws are concerned, unless your employer has a written agreement stating otherwise. See similar questions...

It takes a little more to qualify for disability than it does to qualify for retirement. To qualify for Social Security Disability benefits, you must have worked long enough and recently enough under the current laws. For each year you work, you can earn up to four credits, maximum. Each credit is based on a certain amount of money earned; the amount of earnings required for a credit usually increase each year, as general wage levels increase. See similar questions...

Under the Missouri workers' compensation law, if an employee sustains an injury of sufficient severity he or she may receive vocation rehabilitation services that are reasonably necessary to restore the employee to suitable, gainful employment, if the employer/ insurer authorizes the rehabilitation services. If the employer determines that there had been a loss of suitable gainful employment, the employer may retain the services of a rehabilitation practitioner. See similar questions...

You are entitled to all necessary medical treatment that is likely to lessen your disability. Workers’ compensation generally pays for surgery, hospitalization, medical supplies, prosthetic devices, and prescriptions. Keep in mind that in order to receive these benefits you must go to the doctor chosen by your employer or its insurance representative. See similar questions...

Injured workers are entitled to lost wages if applicable and medical care, to include doctor visits, physical therapy, prescription drugs, hospitalization, testings and travel expenses to and from all doctors appointments. See similar questions...

If a parent is deceased, retired or disabled, children who are under age 19, not graduated from high school or disabled prior to age 22 are entitled to benefits. The total benefit amount received by a dependent child (or children) is limited to 50 percent of the parent’s monthly Social Security benefit. See similar questions...

Allowing individuals to draw benefits when they are not entitled to such benefits will have a negative impact on the combined reserve fund. This could lead to higher taxes for all Louisiana employers, including your own account. See similar questions...

All international students and dependants studying in the UK for more than six months are entitled to free health care under the National Health Service All students in the UK can take paid work up to 20 hours a week (and full-time during university holidays) without requiring a work permit. All British universities require formal evidence of language proficiency for international students. See similar questions...

If your injury or disease arises in the course of your employment or if your preexisting condition, disease or infection is aggravated, reactivated, or accelerated by a work injury, you are entitled to benefits. Yes. The aggravation, reactivation, or acceleration of an underlying or preexisting condition entitles you to benefits. For example, if you have degenerative disc disease and a work injury worsens the disease, you may receive benefits. See similar questions...

You may receive up to two hundred and seventy-five weeks of benefits for a permanent disfigurement of the face, neck, or head. The award is supposed to be proportionate to the extent of the disfigurement. If you were to die as a result of a work related illness or injury within three-hundred weeks of the date you suffered the injury or contracted the disease, your widow or widower is entitled to receive benefits that vary depending on the number of your dependent children. See similar questions...