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Creates Basic Compensation Rate/Modernizes
Benefits and Practices
nSingle 70% benefit level for ALL claimants receiving
wage loss.
Simplifies
the pay rate determination process.
nBurial Costs - Increases maximum amount for burial
expenses from
$800.00 to $6,000.00, adjusted annually for cost of living. Average cost of burial expenses in 2011
is approximately $6,500.
nFacial Disfigurement
- Raises maximum payment from $3,500 to $50,000, adjusted annually for cost of
living.
nPhysician Assistant and Nurse
Practitioners will be
allowed to certify
disability during the Continuation of Pay period.
nSchedule award for impairment to body part– to be
paid in a lump
sum in addition to wage loss compensation at 70% of the current pay for GS-11, Step 3) for ALL
claimants.