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Are workers’ compensation laws keeping up with changing demographics?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety are not keeping pace. Many workers’ compensation systems impose limits on benefits for older workers. Western Australia removed its restrictions in 2011, Queensland does not have a retirement provision per se but does have a five-year maximum provision.

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The monthly workers’ compensation amount they receive may have sustained them initially but unless it is adjusted for the cost of living, permanently disabled workers will see the buying power of their workers’ compensation income decline with each passing year. No COLA was payable in January 2010, January 2011, or in January 2016.