CHSWC to Review Long-Awaited Report on Prepaid Benefits Cards

Members of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation are scheduled to review at their next meeting a long-awaited draft report on a program allowing carriers to use prepaid benefits cards for injured workers in California. The 2018 bill creating a five-year pilot project that allows prepaid benefits cards required CHSWC to finish an assessment of the program by Dec. 1, 2022, ahead of the scheduled Jan. 1, 2023, sunset date. Bills enacted in 2022 and 2023 each extended the sunset date by one year. The author's statements included in analyses of both ...