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Types of disability benefits in Delaware

• Temporary total disability – Temporary total disability or TTD benefits are basically meant for those Delaware workers who have been deemed by a licensed doctor that they will not be able to go back to work for a certain period of time. When this happens to be the case, the worker who will miss time from work will have to be compensated for their lost wages and the compensation provided will have to be at least 66% of your gross weekly income for the time period that you are disabled and out of work.

• Temporary partial disability – After a work place accident if a doctor determines that the injured worker is partially disabled and can essentially perform some work, but to the full extent that he or she did in the past, then such workers will be entitled to temporary partial disability or TPD for the time period when they are unable to work to the full scope that they used to in the past. The benefits given will include at least 2/3^rd of the difference between your wages prior to the accident and your new wage post the accident. Such benefits, as per the Delaware workers compensation laws, can only go on for a maximum of 300 weeks.

• Partial permanent disability – In some unfortunate cases, the workplace accident in question leaves a worker permanently disabled, but not totally disabled, for example, a permanent impairment of a limb. In such cases, the worker will be entitled to receive partial permanent disability or PPD. The amount of benefits provided to workers who have become partially and permanently disabled will depend on three factors: which body part has become impaired, how severe the nature of the impairment is, and the income of the worker at the time when the accident occurred.