Title

Adequacy of Earnings Replacement in Workers' Compensation Programs: A Report of the Study Panel on Benefit Adequacy of the Workers' Compensation Steering Committee, National Academy of Social Insurance

Year

2004

Abstract

The Workers’ Compensation Steering Committee of the National Academy of Social Insurance formed the Benefit Adequacy Study Panel to review the literature on benefit adequacy and to develop an approach to document what is currently known—and not known—about benefit adequacy in WC programs. The panel documents the extent to which WC cash benefits replace workers’ lost wages, and assesses the adequacy of that wage replacement.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Alternative Meanings of Benefit Adequacy
  3. Measuring Benefit Adequacy
  4. Statutory Workers' Compensation Benefits, 1972-1998
  5. Wage Loss Studies
  6. Summary and Conclusions

Sponsorship

National Academy of Social Insurance (U.S.). Workers' Compensation Steering Committee. Study Panel on Benefit Adequacy

ISBN

9780880993241 (pbk.)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY; Workers compensation and disability; Benefits and financing