Who is eligible for Supplemental Benefits or cost of living increases?
The statute allows that only totally and permanently disabled workers and dependents of deceased workers whose date of injury or, as the case may be, death occurred prior to January 1, 1980 may be eligible for supplemental benefits. Dependents of deceased workers may, in some cases, be eligible where the death of the worker occurred after 1979 but was directly and causally attributable to the injury resulting in total and permanent disability prior to 1980.
