How are income benefits calculated?
In Georgia, income benefits accrue only after you have missed five consecutive work days due to a work-related injury or illness. On the sixth working day, the employer’s workers’ compensation insurance policy begins to owe you income benefits. Income benefit amounts are calculated differently for TTD, TPD and PPD and they have different periods of time (or caps) for which they might have to be paid. In addition, every injured worker’s situation is different and no two injuries are exactly alike. Therefore, it is very hard to determine with precision exactly how much money one injured worker may eventually be paid as opposed to another injured worker. Generally, however, the main income benefit (TTD) can be calculated as follows: If you earned more than $750.00 per week before your injury, and you were hurt after July 1st, 2007, then the TTD you would be paid per week would be $500.00 per week, for all the weeks you are unable to work. If you earned less than $750.00 per week before yo
