This is basic data on the Oregon Return to Work (RTW) programs. This view provides outcomes of Vocational Assistance Program closures.

Workers’ compensation indemnity benefits are cash benefits paid to injured workers. These benefits include benefits for temporary disability (time loss), permanent partial disability, permanent total disability, and death. Indemnity benefits also include vocational assistance benefits paid on behalf of severely disabled workers to get them back to work. The data in this table show the vocational assistance benefits paid by the date of the claim resolution.

The data in this table include estimated figures and are subject to revision. All dollars are shown in millions of dollars.

Oregon workers' compensation administrative dispute data. The data is presented in the Department of Consumer and Business Services report at https://www.oregon.gov/dcbs/reports/compensation/Pages/index.aspx. The attached pdf provides definitions of the data.

Workers' Compensation Division (WCD) workers' compensation claim disputes. The dataset covers Reconsideration, Medical disputes, and Vocational assistance disputes. These represent the first level of WC claim disputes.

This is basic data on the Oregon Return to Work (RTW) programs statistics. This view covers the Vocational Assistance Program (Voc) eligibility determinations.

Insurers determine eligibility or ineligibility for vocational assistance for workers with permanent partial disability who do not return to permanent work with the employer at injury. In general, workers are eligible for vocational assistance if they have a substantial handicap that prevents re-employment in any job that pays at least 80 percent of the job-at-injury wages.

Oregon Return to Work (RTW) programs data. The data is presented in the Department of Consumer and Business Services report at https://www.oregon.gov/dcbs/reports/compensation/Pages/index.aspx. The attached pdf provides definitions of the data.

The data covers the Employer-at-Injury Program (EAIP), Preferred Worker Program (PWP), and Vocational Assistance Program (Voc).