Get MI WC-105A 2012-2023

The Workers' Disability Compensation Agency has now updated its travel reimbursement rates for injured employees. The Michigan mileage reimbursement rate 2021 is $0.56.

Michigan workers' compensation rates 2023 have now been published. The maximum weekly comp rate for 2023 is $1,095.00 ($56,940 annually). This is based upon 90% of the state average weekly wage, which is $1,216.18. The maximum is to limit disabled employees to what most people in Michigan are earning.

Following are the criteria for employers who must carry workers' compensation coverage: All private employers regularly employing 1 or more employees 35 hours or more per week for 13 weeks or longer during the preceding 52 weeks. All private employers regularly employing 3 or more employees at one time.

Your benefits continue so long as you suffer wage loss, which could be for the rest of your life.

The going to or coming from work provision of the Act, MCL 418.301(1), provides that a worker going to or coming from their work, while on the employer's premises, and within a reasonable time before and after their working hours, is presumed to be in the course of their employment.

Your benefits continue so long as you suffer wage loss, which could be for the rest of your life. However, your benefits can be reduced by other employer funded benefits, old age social security, and when you turn 65 at 5% per year up to age 75.

The State of Michigan does not ordinarily pay workers' compensation benefits. Most employers in Michigan purchase an insurance policy from a private insurance company or they are authorized to be self-insured. If you are injured on the job, report the injury to your employer immediately.

Michigan's injured workers and their employers are governed by the Workers' Disability Compensation Act. This Act was first adopted in 1912 and provides compensation to workers who suffer an injury on the job and protects employers' liability.