Commission or division may commute compensation, when and how
Workers who get hurt on the job normally receive compensation payments spread out over time, like a paycheck. Sometimes, a worker or employer can ask for all that money to be paid at once in one big payment instead. A government division or commission decides if that one-time payment is allowed, and it is only approved in special situations — like if paying in pieces would cause serious hardship, if the worker is moving out of the country, or if the employer is selling most of their business.
287.530. or may , when and how. — 1. The compensation provided in this chapter may be by the division or the commission and redeemed by the payment in whole or in part, by the employer, of a which shall be by the division or the commission, which sum shall be equal to the of the future which may be due under this chapter, taking account of , the payment to be commuted at its upon of either , with due notice to the other, if it appears that the commutation will be for the best interests of the employee or the of the deceased employee, or that it will avoid undue expense or to either party, or that the employee or has or is about to remove from the United States or that the employer has sold or otherwise the greater part of his business or .
2. In determining whether the commutation asked for will be for the best interest of the employee or the dependents of the deceased employee, or so that it will avoid undue expense or undue hardship to either party, the division or the commission will constantly bear in mind that it is the intention of this chapter that the compensation payments are wages and are to be received by the injured employee or his dependents in the same manner in which wages are ordinarily paid. Therefore, commutation is a departure from the normal method of payment and is to be allowed only when it clearly appears that some unusual circumstances such a departure.
(RSMo 1939 § 3736, A.L. 1965 p. 397, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1237, et al.)
Prior revision: 1929 § 3346
(1971) was without to delegate duty of determining amount of and expressing it in terms of a money as this was judicial function of the commission. American Oil Co. v. Pierce (A.), 472 S.W.2d 458.
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