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2025 Code of Georgia
Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations (Chs. 1 — 15)
Appendix A - Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation
Rule 220 - Computing Days of Disability Preceding Payment of Compensation

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O.C.G.A. Title 34 Appx. Bd. Work. Comp. r. 220
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  • (a) The date of disability is the first day the employee is unable to work a full day. If, however, the employee is paid in full for the date of injury, the date of disability shall begin the next day following the date of injury.

    • (1) The day or days considered lost because of disability to work shall be counted from the first seven calendar days of disability even though the days may not be consecutive.

    • (2) Intervening days, which are not scheduled workdays, during disability or preceding a return to work, are days of disability.

    • (3) Disability shall end on the day of the return to work.

  • (b) Entitlement to benefits for the first seven days of disability, or any part thereof, requires 21 consecutive days of disability. The employer/insurer shall pay compensation for the first seven days of disability on the 21st consecutive day.

  • (c) An injured employee who receives regular wages during disability shall not be entitled to weekly benefits for the same period.

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The revision effective July 1, 1996, deleted the undesignated introductory paragraph.

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