HB 1732-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

Provides that, if the federal social security administration makes a retroactive reduction in the federal social security disability benefit entitlement of a worker for periods of temporary total, temporary partial, or total permanent disability for which the department or self-insurer also reduced the worker's benefit amounts under this section, the department or self-insurer, as the case may be, shall make adjustments in the calculation of benefits and pay the additional benefits to the worker as appropriate. However, the department or self-insurer shall not make changes in the calculation or pay additional benefits unless the worker submits a written request, along with documentation satisfactory to the director of an overpayment assessment by the social security administration, to the department or self-insurer, as the case may be.

Provides that, by December 1, 2006, the department must report to the appropriate committees of the legislature concerning the benefit adjustments authorized in this act and must include information about similar benefit adjustments, if any, authorized in other states with social security disability benefit offset requirements. The report must include recommendations on whether additional statutory changes might be warranted in light of the actions of the federal social security administration.