What Are Temporary Total Disability Benefits?
If a doctor believes that an injured worker has not reached the level of maximum medical improvement and should be completely off of work as a result of an injury, the person is entitled to receive temporary total disability benefits. These benefits are paid at a rate of 66.66% of the claimant’s average weekly wage.
Average weekly wage is established by taking the average of the claimant’s earnings for the 13 weeks before the industrial accident. If a person did not work substantially the whole of the 13 weeks before the accident (at least 75% of those weeks), then alternate methods are used. One alternate method would be to determine whether there exists a similar employee who was performing the same type of work at the same rate of pay for a similar number of hours per week. If there was no similar employee, then the claimant’s actual earnings could be used during the limited period of time after the accident.
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