Bill > A01098

This bill amends the workers' compensation law to allow certain claimants to be reclassified to permanent total disability or total industrial disability due to extreme hardship. The bill defines "extreme hardship" as the injured worker's income from social security disability benefits and disability pension being less than 50% of their average weekly wage upon termination of permanent partial disability benefits, the inability to meet expenses for themselves and dependents upon termination of those benefits, additional medical, functional, or vocational factors further eroding their wage-earning capacity subsequent to the permanent partial disability classification, or their income falling below the federal poverty guidelines upon termination of the permanent partial disability benefits.

Labor and Employment

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A1098