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Texas calculates these benefits under a formula: 70% of the difference between your average weekly wages and the wages you are able to earn after your injury, or 75% of the difference if you earned less than $10 an hour.

Temporary Total Disability (TTD) Benefits: An injured worker's wage paid is at 70% if their current wages are over $8.50/hr otherwise 75%. The weekly payment minimum is $112, 15% of the Texas state average weekly wage. The weekly maximum is $750, 100% of the Texas state average weekly wage.

However, there are exclusions to this rule for some employers listed below: Any public employer including cities, counties, state agencies and state universities. Building and construction contractors for public employers. Motor bus companies and motor carriers.

Injured workers in Texas are eligible for temporary income benefits when they have lost money from a job for more than seven days due to a work-related injury. Those days do not have to be in the same week or consecutive. Temporary benefits amount to 70 or 75% of what the worker's average weekly wage before the injury.

Workers' compensation policies provide benefits to cover approved injury-related medical expenses, a certain percentage of lost income, rehabilitation, employee death-related costs, and temporary/partial/permanent disability. It will not cover pain and suffering, all lost income, or other quality of life losses.

Do I have to have workers' compensation insurance? Texas doesn't require most private employers to have workers' compensation. But private employers who contract with government entities must provide workers' compensation coverage for the employees working on the project.

Workers' comp payout amounts for temporary income can last for 104 weeks from injury, or until you can return to work.

Workers' comp in Texas lasts the entire lifetime for the claimant when it pertains to the medical care that the claimant receives. In other words, for your entire life the workers' compensation insurance company is supposed to pay for all your medical pay that you need for your injury.

There are no “settlements” in a Texas Workers' Compensation case, and you can never “sell” your lifetime medical benefit for any kind of “settlement” or “payment”.