1. Amount of comp.

While you are off work and recovering from your injuries, the employer must continue to pay a portion of your lost wages. In general, the employer must pay you two-thirds (2/3) of your gross weekly wages (your pay before taking out taxes) for the fifty-two (52) weeks before the date of the injury. These benefits are known as Temporary Total Disability ("TTD") or what many workers refer to as "comp".

There is also a type of benefit known as Temporary Partial Disability. At some point, your doctor may release you for limited duty work. If this limited duty work pays less than what your regular duty work was paying, your employer must make up the difference.

The employer withholds no taxes from these benefit checks. Therefore, the amount you receive may be similar to your regular paychecks, even though they represent just 2/3 of your gross wages.

2. When payments should begin.

You are not entitled to comp until you have been off work for more than three days. The employer then must pay you for days four through fourteen and on the fifteenth day, it must make up the first three days that you missed.

3. How often you should receive payments

The checks you receive should come at the same intervals as your normal paychecks did.