4123-17-29 Disabled workers' relief fund; employers' assessments and self-insurers' payments.

 

 

 

4123-17-29                  Disabled  workers'  relief  fund;  employers'  assessments  and self-insurers' payments.

 

 

 

(A)  State fund employers.

 

(1)   In order to make disabled workers' relief fund ("DWRF") payments to claimants having dates of injury or disability prior to January 1, 1987, assessments shall be levied in the following manner for so long as payments to such claimants are required:

 

(a)     Private state fund employers: ten cents per one-hundred-dollar unit of payroll, effective January 1, 1980;

 

(b)    Public employer taxing districts: ten nine cents per one-hundred-dollar unit of payroll, effective January 1, 1980 2004;

 

(c)   Public employer state agency: ten eight cents per one-hundred-dollar unit of payroll, effective July 1, 1980 2004.

 

These assessments shall be billed at the same time state insurance fund premiums are billed and payments shall be credited to the disabled workers' relief fund.

 

(2)    In order to make DWRF payments to claimants having dates of injury on or after January 1, 1987, assessments shall be levied in the following manner for so long as payments to such claimants are required:

 

(a)     Private  state  fund  employers:  one-tenth  of  one  per  cent  of  premium, computed at basic rate, effective July 1, 1993;

 

(b)    Public employer taxing districts: one-tenth of one per cent of premium, computed at basic rate, effective January 1, 1993;

 

(c)     Public employer state agency: one-tenth of one per cent of premium, computed at basic rate, effective July 1, 1993;

 

These assessments shall be billed at the same time state insurance fund premiums are billed and payments shall be credited to the disabled workers' relief fund.

 

(B)  Self-insuring employers.

 

(1)    Each self-insuring employer shall reimburse the bureau for DWRF payments

 

 

made in claims in which it is the employer of record, without regard to the date the employer was granted the privilege to pay compensation directly, for all DWRF payments made on or after August 22, 1986. Upon default and a finding of noncompliance by the administrator of workers' compensation, reimbursement shall be made from the self-insuring employers' guaranty fund.

(2)    Self-insuring employers shall be billed on a semi-annual basis for the DWRF payments made pursuant to this rule.

Effective:                                07/01/2004

CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY

Certification

06/11/2004

Date

Promulgated Under:   111.15

Statutory Authority:   4121.11, 4121.13, 4121.30,

4123.05

Rule Amplifies:           4123.411, 4123.413,

4123.414

Prior Effective Dates: 7/1/80, 7/1/81, 8/22/86

(Emer.), 11/10/86, 1/1/91,

7/1/93, 7/1/94