2023 Vermont Statutes
Title 21 - Labor
Chapter 9 - Employer's Liability and Workers' Compensation
§ 646. Temporary partial disability benefits [Effective July 1, 2028]
§ 646. Temporary partial disability benefits [Effective July 1, 2028]
(a)(1) Where the disability for work resulting from an injury is partial, beginning on the eighth day of the period of disability, the employer shall pay the injured employee a weekly compensation equal to the greater of:
(A) the difference between the amount the injured employee would be eligible to receive pursuant to section 642 of this chapter, including any applicable cost of living adjustment or dependency benefits that would be due, and the wage the injured employee earns during the period of disability; and
(B) two-thirds of the difference between the injured employee’s average weekly wage before the injury and the amount the employee earns during the period of disability.
(2) Compensation paid pursuant to this subsection shall be adjusted on the first July 1 following the receipt of 26 weeks of benefits and annually on each subsequent July 1, so that the compensation continues to bear the same percentage relationship to the average weekly wage in the State as it did at the time of injury.
(b) [Repealed.] (Amended 1963, No. 191, § 5; 1965, No. 67, § 4; 1967, No. 122, § 8; 1981, No. 204 (Adj. Sess.), § 8; 1991, No. 264 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 2023, No. 76, § 31, eff. July 1, 2023; 2023, No. 76, § 32, eff. July 1, 2028.)
