Nebraska Workers Compensation Benefits - A Fight For Increased Living Costs

Nebraska workers compensation benefits, like most states, provides compensation for off work injured Nebraska workers. In Nebraska the maximum level of compensation is dictated in the Nebraska Workers Compensation Law. For most states, as with Nebraska, the maximum level is a percentage of the states statistical average weekly wage as computed and published each year by the state government. Just so happens that the current maximum payable to a Nebraska injured worker is $671 per week.

Well there is a fight brewing in the Nebraska State Legislature. Just look for Legislative Bill 630. One faction wants to add a cost of living adjustment onto the amount an injured worker would receive. The other group feels this would just increase the cost for workers compensation insurance for private and public enterprise. Seems to me, considering the poor economy we are now in, any increase in cost levied on a business would be difficult.

We'll have to keep our eye on this and see what happens!

Thanks!