Supplemental Benefit Program a Work in Progress

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Department of Industrial Relations officials appear to have as many questions as answers when it comes to implementing a program that will make up to $120 million a year in supplemental payments to some injured workers in California.Kathy Zalewski, chief counsel for the Department of Industrial Relations, said on the final day of the California Coalition on Workers’ Compensation 11th annual Conference, Legislative and Educational Forum that she has some ideas for the program the administration is calling the Special Earnings Loss Supplement.Injured workers will ha...