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Report Workers Comp Benefits Cut In Most States
As a result, employers paid workers’ comp insurance rates at their lowest levels since the 1970s, while workers injured on the job run the risk of falling into poverty.
Observers also noted cuts in workers’ comp benefits effectively shift the burden from employers to taxpayers, who fund Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare and Medicaid benefits and even food stamps.
The legal system, however, could provide a potential remedy. In Florida, which slashed benefits to severely disabled workers by 65 percent over the past two decades, a judge ruled the workers’ comp law unconstitutional last summer.
Should that ruling stand, it would once again allow workers to sue their employers over workplace injuries—the exact circumstance that helped lead to the creation of the workers’ comp system more than a century ago.
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Florida slashed benefits to the disabled. Wow, sounds very conservative. And by 65%. What a "success".
As a result, employers paid workers’ comp insurance rates at their lowest levels since the 1970s, while workers injured on the job run the risk of falling into poverty.
Observers also noted cuts in workers’ comp benefits effectively shift the burden from employers to taxpayers, who fund Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare and Medicaid benefits and even food stamps.
The legal system, however, could provide a potential remedy. In Florida, which slashed benefits to severely disabled workers by 65 percent over the past two decades, a judge ruled the workers’ comp law unconstitutional last summer.
Should that ruling stand, it would once again allow workers to sue their employers over workplace injuries—the exact circumstance that helped lead to the creation of the workers’ comp system more than a century ago.
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Florida slashed benefits to the disabled. Wow, sounds very conservative. And by 65%. What a "success".