Vouchers, Supplemental Payments on Agenda for June 7 CHSWC Meeting

Members of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation will discuss options for implementing recommendations to support the $120 million supplemental benefit program in California while also hearing preliminary findings from a review of the vocation education voucher program, during a June 7 meeting. A Rand report the commission posted to its website for public comments in April recommended that the Department of Industrial Relations consider automating payments from the Return-to-Work Supplemental Benefit Program created by SB 863. Rand found only about half of the el...