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A1400Assembly2017-2018 Session

Increase Disability Benefits Annually

Official title

“Provides for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits for an employee with a permanent total disability”

Sponsor Kevin CahillAD-103Affects Economy
Status
In Assembly Committee
Labor
Impact
6/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Labor

What's happening

This bill provides annual cost-of-living adjustment allowances to permanently disabled workers or their dependents under workers' compensation.

Why it matters

  1. Helps protect the real value of benefits. for permanently disabled workers and their families by linking annual increases to the Consumer Price Index, which reflects inflation and rising living costs.

  2. Addresses regional differences in living expenses. by requiring the adjustment to factor in local cost-of-living variations, ensuring that benefits more accurately match the realities faced in different parts of New York.

  3. Provides greater financial stability and predictability. for affected individuals and their dependents, helping them better plan for long-term needs and reducing the risk of hardship due to erosion of fixed benefits over time.

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Who cares

  • Employees with permanent total disabilities

    The bill would add an annual cost-of-living allowance to their disability benefits, based on half the annual increase in the consumer price index and adjusted for regional living costs.

  • Beneficiary-dependents of employees with permanent total disabilities

    The bill would also entitle them to the additional annual allowance.

  • Workers’ compensation and disability benefit payers

    The bill would require an additional annual payment beyond existing disability benefits for eligible employees and beneficiary-dependents.

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Increase Disability Benefits Annually

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Kevin Cahill

Assembly Member · Assembly District 103

History

  1. Referred to labor
  2. Referred to labor

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1400

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 12, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, GUNTHER, HOOPER, MAGEE, ORTIZ, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in certain cases

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 15 of the workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:

10. Cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in certain cases. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other amount received pursuant to this article as disability benefits, an employee with a permanent total disability or the beneficiarydependent of such employee shall be entitled to an additional allowance, to be known as a cost-of-living adjustment allowance, payable annually.

(b) The cost-of-living adjustment allowance shall be computed by applying an adjustment for regional costs of living and shall be based on fifty percent of the annual increase in the consumer price index as promulgated by the United States department of labor.

§ 2. The workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new section 208-a to read as follows:

§ 208-a. Cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in certain cases. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other amount received pursuant to this article as disability benefits, an employee with a permanent total disability or the beneficiary-dependent of such employee shall be entitled to an additional allowance, to be known as a cost-of-living adjustment allowance, payable annually.

2. The cost-of-living adjustment allowance shall be computed by applying an adjustment for regional costs of living and shall be based on fifty percent of the annual increase in the consumer price index as promulgated by the United States department of labor.

§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD01505-01-7

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