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Denver Workers Comp Lawyer - How Trump May Affect Workers’ Compensation In Colorado

Denver Workers Comp Lawyer - If you have questions about these pending changes, or other workers’ compensation issues, please contact us for answers.<br>

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Denver Workers Comp Lawyer - How Trump May Affect Workers’ Compensation In Colorado

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  1. Denver Workers Comp Lawyer - How Trump May Affect Workers’ Compensation In Colorado

  2. Denver Workers Comp Lawyer - How Trump May Affect Workers’ Compensation In Colorado The new Trump administration has ushered in some changes that many Americans weren’t quite prepared for, and much of the impact is not yet fully known. After all, he’s only been in office for a little over four months, and many changes are yet to come. With respect to workers’ compensation (work comp) benefits, the potential effect has not been fully realized. 

  3. Denver Workers Comp Lawyer - How Trump May Affect Workers’ Compensation In Colorado Healthcare Reform In Colorado and many other states, the ACA, more popularly called Obamacare, has generated a favorable trend in work comp claims. Claim rates and costs have been dropping, and this movement is very likely due to increased worker access to healthcare. In its 2016 report, the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research identified a strong correlation between the decreased work comp claims and costs and the uptick in health insurance coverage.

  4. Denver Workers Comp Lawyer - How Trump May Affect Workers’ Compensation In Colorado Budget Cuts and Safety Issues If a disabled worker is receiving both Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and work comp benefits, the total may not exceed 80 percent of the average earnings that the worker was receiving before he became disabled. It they do, the SSDI benefits are reduced to offset the overage. In 15 states, this works in the reverse. Instead, it is the work comp benefits that are offset. On May 23, 

  5. Denver Workers Comp Lawyer - How Trump May Affect Workers’ Compensation In Colorado Overall, it appears that the Trump administration will be bad news for work comp in Colorado, and throughout the nation. And that’s only addressing what we know so far. If you have questions about these pending changes, or other workers’ compensation issues, please contact us for answers.

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