What Lost Wages and Indemnity Benefits are Provided under Workers’ Compensation?
Payment for lost wages under Florida’s workers’ compensation Act are called either Temporary Total Disability, Temporary Partial Disability, Impairment Benefits, or Permanent Total Disability, depending on when and why they are paid. These benefits replace in whole or in part the payment of “wage loss benefits” which were first deleted from the Act in part in 1993 and in whole in 2003. When an employee’s injury takes him out of work completely but temporarily, or stated somewhat differently, in a case of disability total in character but temporary in quality, 66 2/3 percent of the employee’s average weekly wages shall be paid to the employee during the continuance of that temporary total disability, but not to exceed 104 weeks of benefits. Such benefits are called “Temporary Total Disability” benefits. Once the employee reaches this maximum number of weeks allowed, or if the employee reaches the date of maximum medical improvement (whichever occurs earlier), temporary disability benefi
