工人赔偿：1984 - 1988年基准修订 - Suppr

Soc Secur Bull. 1992 Fall;55(3):41-58.

About 93.1 million workers were covered under workers' compensation laws in 1988--an increase of 11 percent from the 1984 total. Benefit amounts totaled $30.7 billion--an increase of about 56 percent since 1984. Of the total payments made under the workers' compensation program, $17.6 billion went to disabled workers, $1.6 billion to their survivors, and $11.5 billion for medical care. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is interested in measuring economic security in the United States, and workers' compensation plays a large role in that measurement. This article represents one part of our overall effort to determine the roles the various income-maintenance programs play in helping citizens of the United States achieve economic security. The figures presented here provide readers with an opportunity to review workers' compensation program operations during much of the 1980's. Workers' compensation is also important to SSA because that program is directly related to the Social Security Disability Insurance program. Since 1965, Social Security disability benefits have been subject to reduction if the beneficiary also receives workers' compensation and the combined benefits exceed 80 percent of previous earnings. In addition, SSA has been directly involved in providing income maintenance for disability from work-related diseases since 1969 when the Federal Black Lung benefits program was established.

1988年，约9310万工人受工伤赔偿法保护，比1984年的总数增加了11%。福利金额总计307亿美元，自1984年以来增长了约56%。在工伤赔偿计划支付的总金额中，176亿美元支付给了残疾工人，16亿美元支付给了他们的遗属，115亿美元用于医疗护理。社会保障管理局（SSA）对衡量美国的经济保障感兴趣，工伤赔偿在这一衡量中发挥着重要作用。本文是我们确定各种收入维持计划在帮助美国公民实现经济保障方面所起作用的整体努力的一部分。这里给出的数据让读者有机会回顾20世纪80年代大部分时间里工伤赔偿计划的运作情况。工伤赔偿对社会保障管理局也很重要，因为该计划与社会保障残疾保险计划直接相关。自1965年以来，如果受益人同时领取工伤赔偿且两者之和超过以前收入的80%，社会保障残疾福利将被削减。此外，自1969年联邦黑肺病福利计划设立以来，社会保障管理局一直直接参与为与工作相关疾病导致的残疾提供收入维持。