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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. Western Australia removed its restrictions in 2011, Queensland does not have a retirement provision per se but does have a five-year maximum provision. average) and a quarter of females (25.7% in 2001 to 15% in 2021) in the last two decades. (See

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Over time, savings may be depleted, debts incurred, and their health and welfare diminished—furthering the burden of their original work-related injuries. No COLA was payable in January 2010, January 2011, or in January 2016. Social Security: Cost-of-Living Adjustments , Congressional Research Service, Updated November 19, 2018.