A worker gets temporary disability payments while going through rehab until a doctor says they are as healed as they are going to get, or until they go back to work. How permanently disabled a worker is cannot be decided while they are still in rehab. If a worker refuses rehab services or a job-skills evaluation that the employer says is needed, their disability payments get cut in half for every week they refuse.
287.149. Benefits to be paid, when — reduction of benefits, when. — 1. or benefits shall be paid throughout the rehabilitative until the employee reaches , unless such benefits are terminated by the employee's to work or are terminated as otherwise specified in this chapter.
2. The of the employee's under sections 287.170 to 287.200 shall not be established, determined or while the employee is participating in .
3. Refusal of the employee to accept rehabilitation services or submit to a as necessary by the employer shall result in a fifty percent reduction in all disability payments to an employee, including temporary partial disability benefits paid section 287.180, for each week of the period of refusal.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 751, A.L. 2017 S.B. 66)
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