Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 9. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION · Article 7. COMPENSATION SCHEDULES

34-9-262. Compensation for temporary partial disability.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Except as otherwise provided in Code Section 34-9-263, where the disability to work resulting from the injury is partial in character but temporary in quality, the employer shall pay or cause to be paid to the employee a weekly benefit equal to two-thirds of the difference between the average weekly wage before the injury and the average weekly wage the employee is able to earn thereafter but not more than $533.00 per week for a period not exceeding 350 weeks from the date of injury.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 31; Code 1933, § 114-405; Ga. L. 1949, p. 1357, § 2; Ga. L. 1955, p. 210, § 2; Ga. L. 1963, p. 141, § 6; Ga. L. 1968, p. 3, § 2; Ga. L. 1973, p. 232, § 4; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1143, § 4; Ga. L. 1975, p. 190, § 2; Ga. L. 1978, p. 2220, § 4; Ga. L. 1985, p. 727, § 9; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1409, § 15; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1942, § 22; Ga. L. 1994, p. 887, § 15; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1367, § 9; Ga. L. 1999, p. 817, § 8; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1321, § 6; Ga. L. 2001, p. 748, § 7; Ga. L. 2003, p. 364, § 7; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1210, § 8/HB 327; Ga. L. 2007, p. 616, § 7/HB 424; Ga. L. 2013, p. 651, § 6/HB 154; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1079, § 4/HB 412; Ga. L. 2016, p. 287, § 4/HB 818; Ga. L. 2019, p. 798, § 5/SB 135; Ga. L. 2022, p. 350, § 2/HB 1409; Ga. L. 2023, p. 416, § 3/HB 480, effective July 1, 2023.

Amendments

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, substituted “$450.00” for “$383.00” near the end of this Code section. The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, substituted “$483.00” for “$450.00”. The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, substituted “not more than $533.00 per week” for “not more than $483.00 per week” near the end.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2023, p. 416, § 5/HB 480, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2023, and shall apply to injuries that occur on or after such date.”

Law reviews

For annual survey on worker’s compensation, see 71 Mercer L. Rev. 345 (2019).

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