A 9897

Abstract

Provides that the weekly benefit which the disabled employee is entitled to receive for disability commencing: (i) on or after January first, two thousand twenty-four shall be fifty percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty percent of the state average weekly wage; (ii) on or after January first, two thousand twenty-five shall be fifty-five percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty-five percent of the state average weekly wage; (iii) on or after January first, two thousand twenty-six shall be sixty percent of the employee's weekly average wage but shall not exceed sixty percent of the state average weekly wage; and (iv) on or after January first of each succeeding year, shall be sixty-seven percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed sixty-seven percent of the state average weekly wage.