Illinois workers compensation, what happens if I get laid off
A reader e-mailed wanting to know what will happen to her Illinois workers' compensation benefits if she were to get laid off of work.
Simple answer is nothing. That should hold true as well if you are fired or the company goes out of business or is bankrupt.
In the short term nothing changes. In the long term if you are laid off or otherwise there is no job for you, they have to keep paying your benefits as long as you have restrictions. Once you are at maximum medical improvement (MMI), if there is no job for you and you can't find one, the insurance company will likely have to provide vocational rehabilitation assistance which is a service to help you find a job within your restrictions. If you have no restrictions you are probably out on your own in that regard.
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What happens if you are injured, receive comp. and then after being cleared for work, you go back, work two days and they lay you off, saying there is no work, but they are not laid off and they replace you with someone else the same night and continue working. I was told that the boss said to hire me back for a day and then find an excuse to fire me. Not able to find an excuse they just told me they were laid off. This seems very wrong to me. I know for a fact they kept working as I have friends there working still. Any help is hugely appreciated as I just don't know what to do.
We reply: If you have any restrictions you should get TTD benefits, but a further analysis is required.
What happens if you have an injury at work go thru all the therapies and so forth and are released to go back to work? But I was back to work for about a week and then was laid off. Although the dr had released me to come back to work I was still having issue with my back and shoulder. After a few months I had ended up going to a chiro to help alleviate the problems. I had to stop going because i couldnt afford to keep paying to go to the dr every 2-3 days a week. My ex-employer is located in abother state and every attorney I had spoken with said they couldnt represent me because they had to be inthe same state the employer was. How do you go around that and what can I do? How long so I have to file I live in illinois and my employer was in indiana...like three and a half hours away?