Question about Temporary Disability payments

I returned to work last week after being out on Workers Comp for about a year and a half.  I am only working about 16 hours per week limited duty until next month when I start working full time again.

I just assumed that my workers comp temporary disability payments would continue but that worker's comp would deduct money from or prorate my WC check because I am working part time.  But I can't find any information about this online and the WC office is closed today.

So do they prorate my WC temp disability payments or will I only receive wages from my work paycheck for my 16 hours.

 

What state?

And have you been released to full duty yet and your employer doesn't HAVE full-time work until next month?  Or are you released only for part-time and will be medically released without restrictions in February?

What state?  California

And have you been released to full duty yet and your employer doesn't HAVE full-time work until next month?  Or are you released only for part-time and will be medically released without restrictions in February?  &... I have not been released for full duty.  My doctor said light duty (16 hours per week) until Feb when I will be released without restrictions.

 

 

You are due TPD/Temporary Partial Disability.

You would be paid 2/3's of the difference between your light duty wages, and your normal wage...subject to the max TTD/TPD rate.

4653.  If the injury causes temporary total disability, the
disability payment is two-thirds of the average weekly earnings
during the period of such disability, consideration being given to
the ability of the injured employee to compete in an open labor
market..

4654.  If the injury causes temporary partial disability, the
disability payment is two-thirds of the weekly loss in wages during
the period of such disability. However, such disability payment shall
be reduced by the sum of unemployment compensation benefits and
extended duration benefits received by the employee during the period
of temporary partial disability.



4655.  If the injury causes temporary disability which is at times
total and at times partial, the weekly disability payment during the
period of each total or partial disability is in accordance with
sections 4653 and 4654 respectively.
http://www.leginfo.ca....

The difficulty with this benefit is that your ER pays your wages, then has to provide that information to the CA/Claims Adjuster, the CA in turn calculates and pays the TPD benefit. You in turn, wait about 2 weeks for the benefits to be paid.

Then yes, your SDI benefits should be prorated until such time as you are released to full duty without restrictions.

It doesn't appear SDI/State Disability Ins benefits are the question here...but rather WC.

IF...SDI is paid, there wouldn't necessarily be a reduction right away. Once the EDD/SDI is notified of overpayment, the ER/IC would likely be liable for reimbursement to SDI, as the benefits were paid in place of the carriers liability for wage loss/TPD.

SDI would only be paying now if the TTD cap were met (104 weeks), which doesn't appear to be the case.

No state of California Short term Disability Insurance payments (SDI) are involved.

Thank you very much for your response.  I was concerned because I didn't get my Worker's Comp check this Saturday.  I am going to assume that the check is late because they needed to get info from my employeer about how many hours I have worked.

 

Sorry, misread your answer (thought there was a comma after "no").

Workers Compensation benefits...TTD/TPD are the only benefits being paid here.

SDI could be paid along with comp benefits, if the SDI benefit was more than the TTD rate, SDI could supplement. Doesn't normally happen that way, but could.

Also, if the IW were MMI per PQME/AME, rated and receiving PD indemnity under a comp award, but the PTP had not release to RTW, and continued to certify eligibility for SDI... certainly not frequent scenario, but could be.

The op statement was a bit confusing...I read, re-read more than once to get the meaning.

WC acronyms drive me crazy..   ;)

understood... but be sure you stay away from SSA/Medicare....

Hope this helps ...these vary some by state, but most of these are pretty widly used


AA Applicant's Attorney
AD Administrative Director
AME Agreed Medical Examination
AOE/COE Arising out of and Occurring in the course of Employment
AQME Applicant Qualified Medical Expert
ATTY Attorney
C&R Compromise and Release
CA/CE Claims Adjuster/Claims Examiner
CT Continuing Trauma Injury
CTS Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Wrist)
DA Defense Attorney
DC Doctor of Chiropractic
DCA District Court of Appeals
DEPO Deposition
DEU Disability Evaluation Unit
DO Doctor of Osteopathy
DOR Declaration of Readiness to Proceed
DQME Defense Qualified Medical Expert
DWC Division of Workers Comp
DX Diagnosis
EE Employee
EH Expedited Hearing
ER Employer
F&A Findings & Award
FCE Functional Capacity Evaluation
FROI First Report of Injury
HP Healing Period
IA Information and Assistance Officer @ DWC
IC Insurance Company
IC Industrial Commission
IME Independent Medical Examiner
IR Industrial Rating
IW Injured Worker
JA Job Analysis
LC Labor Code
LD Light Duty
LOE Loss of Earnings Assessment
LMR Labor Market Research
MD Doctor of Medicine
MMI Maximal Medical Improvement
MOD Modified Duties @ Work
MPC Mid-Palmer Crease (Range of Motion Loss Management)
MPN Medical Provider Network
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging (special x-ray)
MSC Mandatory Settlement Conference
NCM Nurse Case Manager
NEURO Neurosurgeon/Neurologist
NLT No Lost Time from Work
NTL No Lost Time from Work
OJT On-the-job Training
OR If open reduction & internal fixation
(Setting of the broken bone in body)
ORTHO Orthopedic Surgeon
OV Office Visit
P&S Permanent and Stationary
PD Permanent Disability
PI Private Investigator
PJ Presiding Judge
PPD Permanent Partial Disability
PQME Panel Qualified Medical Expert
PSYCHE Psychiatrist/Psychologist
PTD Permanent Total Disability
PT Physical Therapy
PX Pain
QIW Qualified Injured Worker (Eligible for vocational rehab)
QME Qualified Medical Exam
REPPED Injured Worker who has an attorney
ROM Range of Motion (measurement of joint movement)
RTW Return to Work
RTWM Return to Work Modified
RVS Relative Value Study
(Determines reasonable fees for doctors, hospitals, etc)
RX Pharmaceutical Prescriptions
S & W Serious & Willful Misconduct Suit
SC Supreme Court
SDI State Disability Allowance
SDT Subpoena Duces Tecum (used to obtain records)
SIU Special Investigations Unit
SSDI Social Security Disability Allowance
STIP Stipulated Award
STIPS w/FM Stipulation with Future Medical
SUBRO Subrogation
SUB-ROSA Investigator does undercover investigation of employee
(films employee, etc)
TPA Third Party Administrator
TPD Temporary Partial Disability
TTD Temporary Total Disability
TX Treatment
U & C Usual & Customary (Job Duties)
VR Vocational Rehab (Retraining to new job)
VRM Vocational Rehab Maintenance Allowance
VRTD Temporary Disability Paid during VR Process
WC Worker's Compensation
WCAB Appointed Physician who determines PD
WCJ Worker's Compensation Judge
WCIRB Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau

ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL... like those huh ?

As I said, stay away from CMS/Medicare... you will like those even less...guarantee it.

Medicare uses a acronym for everything they include in the orginial sentence... its' like a foreign language. That only those employees speak.

I'll just stay with FLSA and taxes and such.