Vocational Rehab Counselor Pans Lifetime PPD

A retired New York state vocational rehabilitation counselor urged the Legislature to end the state's unique lifetime award of permanent partial disability benefits, in a guest editorial published by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle on Monday. "The most prevalent fraud I witnessed in the New York state compensation system was the significant numbers of permanent partially disabled claimants who elected not to make a genuine, sustained effort to seek substantial, gainful employment while continuing to collect cash benefits," said William C. Armstrong, who retired in 2003 as a vocational co...