Notwithstanding the provisions of KRS § 342.730, during the period the employee is eligible for permanent total disability benefits and is actively participating in a vocational or physical rehabilitation program, pursuant to an order of the administrative law judge, the employee’s benefits shall be calculated by taking eighty percent (80%) of his average weekly wage, but not more than one hundred percent (100%) of the state‘s average weekly wage, times the permanent disability rating as determined in this chapter.
Effective: July 14, 2000
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 342.715

  • Permanent disability rating: means the permanent impairment rating selected by an administrative law judge times the factor set forth in the table that appears at KRS
    342. See Kentucky Statutes 342.0011
  • Permanent total disability: means the condition of an employee who, due to an injury, has a permanent disability rating and has a complete and permanent inability to perform any type of work as a result of an injury, except that total disability shall be irrebuttably presumed to exist for an injury that results in:
    1. See Kentucky Statutes 342.0011
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 514, sec. 29, effective July 14, 2000. — Amended
1996 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 29, effective December 12, 1996. — Amended 1987 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 62, effective January 4, 1988. — Created 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 104, sec. 19, effective July 15, 1980.

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