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The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announces that the 2020 minimum and maximum temporary total disability (TTD) rates will increase on January 1, 2020.  The minimum TTD rate will increase from $187.71 to $200.13 and the maximum TTD rate will increase from $1,251.38 to $1,334.17 per week.

Labor Code section 4453(a) (10) requires the rate for TTD be increased by an amount equal to percentage increase in the State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) as compared to the prior year.  The SAWW is defined as the average weekly wage paid to employees covered by unemployment insurance as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor for California for the 12 months ending March 31st in the year preceding the injury.  In the 12 months ending March 31, 2019, the SAWW increased from $1,242.78 to $1,325.00 – an increase of 6.61581 percent.

Under Labor Code section 4659(c), workers with a date of injury on or after January 1, 2003 who are receiving life pension (LP) or permanent total disability (PTD) benefits are also entitled to have their weekly LP or PTD rate adjusted based on the SAWW.

SAWW figures may by verified using the U.S. Department of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance Data Base.

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lonce@adjustercom.com, Lonce Lamonte, journalist and editor, with the DWC Newsline release of September 6th 2019.