Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2024

Where short and long term disability (STD and LTD) insurance or social security disability insurance plans (SSDI in the US) are available, they are often accessed before (or instead of) filing a workers’ compensation claim. Unlike in the US SSDI, I could find no data isolating just those who had also filed workers’ compensation claims.

Disability Insurance 52

Disability Insurance Workers’ Compensation Insurance Pension 52

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 5, 2022

Extracting provincial data from the same series, British Columbia has seen a massive shift in the employment of workers age 65 and older: The monthly unadjusted BC employment rate of 65- to 69-year-olds now routinely exceeds 35% More than a third of males (36.2% of males aged 65 to 69 are employed (Q1 2022) vs. 29.5% in (Q1 2002).

Workers’ Compensation 52

Workers’ Compensation Health and Welfare Compensation System Transportation 52

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JANUARY 1, 2019

To forestall this eventuality, the majority of North American workers’ compensation jurisdictions adjust periodic payments (sometimes called workers’ compensation pensions or permanent disability payments) to account for increases in the cost of living. No COLA was payable in January 2010, January 2011, or in January 2016.

Workers’ Compensation 52

Workers’ Compensation Pension Health and Welfare Insurance 52