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Chart VI-Income Benefits for Total Disability, cont.

Percentage
Jurisdiction of Wages

Maximum Weekly
Payment

Minimum Weekly
Payment

Amount
($)1

Amount
($)1

Rate
(%)2

Rate
(%)2

Automatic
Cost-ofLiving
Increase

Offsets

Notations

Disability

After two
years on 1/1

PT-Social
Security

Annual increase in maximum
effective 1/1. Total disability
benefits begin after medical
and vocational rehabilitation
end. Compensation increased
15% for injury caused by
employer's failure to obey
safety order.

Time Limit

Amount
Limit ($)

American
Samoa

662/3 AWW

Virgin
Islands

662/3

483

662/355

96.063, 55

FECA

662/3 or 75

1,971.04

662/3 or
75 of
highest
rate for
GS-15

304.63

75%
of the
minimum
rate of a
GS-2

TT-
disability
PT-life

3/1

56

Benefits paid every four
weeks.

Longshore
Act57

662/3

1,510.76

200
national
AWW

377.6958

50
national
AWW3

Disability

PT-10/1

Other benefits

Annual increase in PT and
related death cases up to the
maximum effective 10/1.

Alberta

90 (of net
income)

See end
note59

British
Columbia

PT-90 (of
net earnings)

1,066.43

Manitoba

90 (of net
average
earnings)63

64

New
Brunswick

85 (of net
earnings)

812.5567

TP-
disability, up
to five years

Newfound- 85 (of weekly
net earnings)
land and
70
Labrador

1,261.54

Northwest
Territories
and
Nunavut

Maximum
payment
determined by
the Year's
Maximum
Insurable
Earnings

90 (of net
income)
remuneration

411.13

90 (of
average
net
income)

PT payable monthly.
Adjustments are made 1/1
annually.

394.460

65

65

No
minimum

TT-
disability
PT-age 6561

81,900

1/1; based
on CPI minus
1%

50% of any CPP
benefits

PT benefits are paid on a
monthly basis.62

To age 6566

No
limit on
insurable
earnings63

First day
of month
following
second
anniversary
of accident
and annually
thereafter

CPP benefit
other disability
benefits, any
payment made
by an employer,
and employment
insurance benefits

Benefits payable periodically.

To age 6568

Benefits
indexed
by CPI69 on
anniversary
of accident

Remuneration
or income
replacement from
an employment
source and
proportion of CPP
disability benefits
with respect to
injury

Annual increase in maximum
on 1/1. Maximum annual
earnings are $64,800 (2019).
Benefits payable biweekly.

To age 65 or
maximum of
two years
wage loss
benefits if
injury occurs
after age of
6370

Indexed
annually
by CPI for
long-term
benefits

75% of employersponsored pension
plan benefits and
CPP benefits

PT payable monthly.
Maximum annual assessable
earnings per employee are
$65,600.

TT-
disability
PT-life

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If the worker's monthly
payment is less than 2.75%
of the Year's Maximum
Insurable Remuneration
for the year in which the
personal injury or disease
occurs, the payment must
be increased to the lesser
of 100% of the worker's net
monthly remuneration and
2.75% of the Year's Maximum
Insurable Remuneration.
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