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temporary uh disability benefits are paid to an injured worker when the injured worker is in a healing period. So while they are treating with their doctor and they’re getting ongoing u uh treatment um whether that’s physical therapy, diagnostic testing, uh maybe an injection, surgery, but they’re maintaining or performing or going through ongoing medical treatment. They would receive temporary total disability if they’re either off of work or under work restrictions that an employer
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cannot accommodate. Once they reach end of healing from that injury, um that is when benefits would change from temporary total disability or temporary disability benefits to permanent partial disability benefits. And at that point in time, a percentage of disability is assigned assuming that there is one. And the benefits would change from the temporary benefit to the permanent benefit.
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