Table XVI
Workmen's Compensation Payments in Vermont

This table (Chapter 19) was included in text explaining Worker's Compensation in Vermont. It shows the rates and increases in the various categories of disability payments (excluding death from an occupational disease).
Minimum Number of Employees
Temporary Disability
Permanent Total Diability
Death
year / number
days care / medical benefits
Weekly payments to dependents
max. payment for death / burial exp.
1915      10
$   3 to $12.50
$   3,500       $   75
1917      10
     3 to   12.50
$   3,500       $ 100
1943        7
60      $      75
     3 to   12.50
$   3,500       $ 100
1947        7
60              75
   10 to   20.00
$   5,200       $ 150
1949        7
90            750
   12 to   25.00
$   6,500       $ 150
1951        7
90         1,000
   12 to   25.00
$   6,500       $ 150
1953        7
180       2,500
   12 to   25.00
$   6,500       $ 150
1955        5
  *         2,500
   16 to   28.00
$   9,240       $ 200
1959        3
  *         5,000
   18 to   36.00
$ 11,880       $ 300
1963        3
  *         5,000
   20 to   39.00
$ 12,870       $ 500
1965        3
  *         5,000
   21 to   41.00
$ 13,530       $ 500
* No limit set but cannot exceed 330 weeks.

Footnote: In addition to the citations in note 61 the following were used in this table: No. 127 of the Acts of 1943, p. 160; No. 194 of the Acts of 1949, pp. 191-193; No. 179 of the Acts of 1951, p. 261; No. 101 of the Acts of 1953, pp. 81-82; No. 67 of the Acts of 1965, pp. 78-80. (Temporary edition.)

Current information about Worker's Compensation in Vermont is available through the Vermont Department of Labor and Industry

Table XVII

Nuquist Index

Comments to: crs@uvm.edu Reviewed on 6/23/97