PODCAST #268 Georgia Workers' Compensation Lawyer - I have been returned to part time work for my Comp claim, do I still qualify for weekly checks?

Ty Wilson Law Podcast

All right, this is gonna be a question that we received recently. "Can I continue to get workers compensation payments if my employer has brought me back to part time work?" and the short answer is, Yes. It does sound like you can. But you're gonna have to put pencil to paper if you will. Depending upon what your income benefit rate is or your comp rate that you're receiving in weekly checks. The question is: "Is that part time worth they brought you back?" "Are you making more money?" "Grossing more money", meaning before anything's taken out are you making more money than what you were receiving with those weekly checks in workers comp? If you are not making more money then there is some exposure or responsibility from the employer insured to issue you what are called temporary partial disability benefit checks. That means you are temporarily partially disabled because you're on light duty. And so, you would be entitled to those checks depending upon how much income you earn through the part time job. You still certainly have medical without question. If for any reason the part time job ceases or stops. then you would go back to temporary total disability if they were no longer able to provide light duty work for you. Hope that's been helpful. And we'll see you on the next video.

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