Montana Code 39-71-1025. Auxiliary benefits
39-71-1025. Auxiliary benefits. (1) In addition to benefits otherwise provided in this chapter, separate benefits not exceeding a total of $4,000, adjusted as provided in subsection (2), may be paid by the insurer for specialized job modification, reasonable travel, and relocation expenses used for any of the following:
Terms Used In Montana Code 39-71-1025
- Rehabilitation plan: means a written individualized plan that assists a disabled worker in acquiring skills or aptitudes to return to work through job placement, on-the-job training, education, training, or specialized job modification and that reasonably reduces the worker's actual wage loss. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(a)search for new employment;
(b)return to work but in a new location;
(c)the implementation of a rehabilitation plan that has been filed with the department; or
(d)attendance at an on-the-job training program.
(2)The separate benefit may be adjusted by an amount that is the percentage increase, if any, in the current state‘s average weekly wage over the state’s average weekly wage adopted for the previous year.