collect in prison

[badger]

Can you still collect workmens comp. benifits while in prison
under new jersey laws

[1171]

nothing in the code prohibits it but you can find out for sure by calling the state work comp workers Hot Line for information
(609) 292-2515

[capricorn]

The only reason I can come up with why they would stop your payments is they could say you aren't working not because you are injured but because you are in prison......When I had my cataract surgery my attorney mentioned this to me. That he didn't want the IC to think I wasn't working because I needed eye surgery.....I would only have been out of work for a day with each eye anyway. Please let us know what you find out. Very interesting. Good luck.

[Still in Limbo]

I know in Pa. if You are Incarcerated, You cannot Collect w/c Payments. Once Released, You can Petition to have Them Reinstated!

[Tuffy]

I believe that while in prision, that each prisoner has an account for personal needs that is controled by the prison. and only allowed a certain amount in that account. Where else would WC send the check???

[Bad Boy Bad Boy]

And I think if in Prision, the checks stop, work comp put on hold, for how is it going to show proper treatment for their injury?

[capricorn]

I thought I was on target with that one.....my big thing is the IC would say you aren't working because you are incarcerated.

WOW! I'm thinking like the big boys...Badboy and Limbo.... Hot dog!

[MrsMitch]

Tuffy Wrote:I believe that while in prision, that each prisoner has an account for personal needs that is controled by the prison. and only allowed a certain amount in that account. Where else would WC send the check???

You can have all the money on your account as you can get, in california - just for the record.

[capricorn]

Understood....but that doesn't mean that the WC IC would send the check to a prison account.

[Bummer Knees]

I use to work for the state prison system with my job being in charge of inmate accounts.

My positon was of a work release facility.

An account on paper was kept for each working inmate, their earning, were recorded, an amount would be deducted for the daily cost of housing the prisioner, meals, medical expenses, and work expenses.

Inmates would receive a small percentage of their pay after expenses were deducted.
This money was used for work related espenses, examples would be luch money, or required clothing for work.

Many times after the cost of housing an inmate was deducted from the inmate earnings there would be no money left over for the inmate.

I have never processed a work comp check for an inmate, but if allowed the check would be recorded as inmate earnings.

Bummer Knees