Wage Benefits - Temporary Compensation

If you are disabled (unable to perform your job and under active medical care) for more than seven days, you may be eligible to receive temporary total benefits (or wage benefit). Once you are out of work for seven days, temporary total benefits will be retroactive to the first day of disability.

The benefit consists of 70% of the weekly wages received at the time of the injury subject to maximum and minimums as set forth in the following chart. Your benefits cannot exceed 75% of the State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) or fall below the minimum rate of 20% of SAWW.

New Jersey Workers' Compensation Benefits

Rate in effect on the date of accident or exposure/manifestation
in cases of occupational disease.

Effective Date

Temporary &
Permanent Total

Permanent
Partial

01/01/2001 70% of wages to maximum of
minimum of

01/01/2002 70% of wages to maximum of
minimum of

01/01/2003 70% of wages to maximum of
minimum of

01/01/2004 70% of wages to maximum of
minimum of

01/01/2005 70% of wages to maximum of
minimum of

01/01/2006 70% of wages to maximum of
minimum of

01/01/2007 70% of wages to maximum of
minimum of

01/01/2008 70% of wages to maximum of
minimum of

$591
$158

$629
$168

$638
$170

$650
$173

$666
$178

$691
$184

$711
$190

$742
$198

$591
$ 35

$629
$ 35

$638
$ 35

$650
$ 35

$666
$ 35

$691
$ 35

$711
$ 35

$742
$ 35

Benefits continue to be paid until either you return to work or have reached maximum medical benefit from authorized treatment up to a period of 400 weeks.

If the authorized treating physician determines that you are capable of what is known as light duty work, your employer has the option of either providing you with a light duty assignment or continue to pay temporary compensation benefits.

Call on New Jersey lawyer, John F. Renner, an experienced New Jersey Workers Compensation lawyer.

New Jersey Work Injury lawyer, John F. Renner provides experienced, knowledgeable and aggressive legal counsel in pursuit of a just and equitable award of compensation. There is no attorney fee unless an award of compensation is recovered for you.
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