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Chart VI-Income Benefits for Total Disability, cont.
Maximum Weekly
Payment

Minimum Weekly
Payment

Automatic
Cost-ofLiving
Increase

Percentage
of Wages

Amount
($)1

Rate
(%)2

Amount
($)1

Rate (%)2 Time Limit

Amount
Limit ($)

Offsets

Notations

Virgin
Islands

662/3

617

662/355

122.713, 55

 

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.

FECA

662/3 or 75

2,050.67

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

316.93

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

1,560.08

200
national
AWW

390.0258

50 national Disability
AWW3

 

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)

59

 

428.53

 

 

 

 

 

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

British
Columbia

PT-90 (of
net earnings)

1,507.5060

90 (of
average
net
income)

423.54

 

TT-disability
PT-age 6561

87,100

1/1; based
on CPI minus
1%

50% of any CPP
benefits

PT benefits are paid on a
monthly basis.62

Manitoba

90 (of net
average
earnings)63

64

 

65

65

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.

New
Brunswick

85 (of net
earnings)

785.8267

 

 

 

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 $66,200. Benefits
payable biweekly.

Newfound- 85 (of weekly
net earnings)
land and
Labrador70

1,288.08

 

No
minimum

 

To age 65 or
maximum of
two years
wage loss
benefits if
injury occurs
after age 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 $66,980.

Northwest
Territories
and
Nunavut

Maximum
payment
determined by
the Year's
Maximum
Insurable
Earnings

 

 

 

TT-disability
PT-life

 

 

 

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.

Jurisdiction

90 (of net
income)
remuneration

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