Feds to Award States $100M in Return-to-Work Grants

A federal project that seeks to reconfigure the methods used to get injured and sick employees back to work as soon as possible has taken its first major step, receiving proposals from states seeking grants of up to $22.5 million apiece. The five-year, $100 million pilot project bears the name RETAIN, for, Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury, and is to a considerable degree based on an early return-to-work program by the state of Washington. RETAIN is based on a workers’ comp model, and the applicants are state agencies that oversee workers’ comp....