A Pennsylvania appellate court rejected an elderly claimant's equal protection challenge to Social Security offsets in a published decision on Thursday. The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania determined that offsetting workers' compensation benefits with Social Security “old age” benefits is constitutional, because the offset rationally serves a legitimate state interest in limiting employers' exposure to workers' compensation costs. The court reached the conclusion in the published decision of Rose White v. WCAB (City of Pittsburgh). Rose White, an employee for the...
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