[mcats]

(07-19-2018, 11:14 AM)1171 Wrote: Usually medical is lifetime.

I was under the impression that weekly payments were going to be lifetime as well.
Do they hold that off until he passes another medical exam at a later date?

[1171]

here's information from the link previously posted:
Permanent Total Benefits

Sometimes when a work injury or illness prevents a worker from returning to any type of gainful employment, he or she may be entitled to receive permanent total disability benefits. These weekly benefits are provided initially for a period of 450 weeks. These benefits continue beyond the initial 450 weeks provided that the injured worker is able to show that he or she remains unable to earn wages.

Wages earned after 450 weeks offset the weekly computation in proportion to the income at the time of the injury. Permanent Total benefits are paid weekly and are based upon 70% of the average weekly wage, not to exceed 75% of the Statewide Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) or fall below the minimum rate of 20% of the SAWW.

https://www.nj.gov/labor/wc/workers/bene...ex.html#PT

[mcats]

(07-19-2018, 01:10 PM)1171 Wrote: here's information from the link previously posted:
Permanent Total Benefits

Sometimes when a work injury or illness prevents a worker from returning to any type of gainful employment, he or she may be entitled to receive permanent total disability benefits. These weekly benefits are provided initially for a period of 450 weeks. These benefits continue beyond the initial 450 weeks provided that the injured worker is able to show that he or she remains unable to earn wages.

Wages earned after 450 weeks offset the weekly computation in proportion to the income at the time of the injury. Permanent Total benefits are paid weekly and are based upon 70% of the average weekly wage, not to exceed 75% of the Statewide Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) or fall below the minimum rate of 20% of the SAWW.

https://www.nj.gov/labor/wc/workers/bene...ex.html#PT

My husband will be 65 when he reaches 450 weeks. How does that figure in?

[1171]

The comp law for permanent total has no age factor