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2016 Budget Proposal Would Require Reporting of Workers’ Compensation Benefits to Social Security Administration
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has been vocal in the past about its difficulty in obtaining information about workers’ compensation benefits. The primary reason that the SSA has been seeking this information is to reduce social security benefits by way of an SSDI/WC offset. The SSDI/WC offset is a calculation used by the SSA to reduce a beneficiary’s SSDI benefit amount if the person is also receiving workers’ compensation benefits. The SSDI/WC offset is different in every state and applies only when the individual’s combined monthly amounts of SSDI and workers’ compensation are greater than 80% of individual’s pre-disability “average current earnings.” Read more…
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