NAC616C.577. Vocational rehabilitation maintenance: Rate; commencement; timing of payments; termination; payment during development of program.  


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  •      1. An insurer shall pay vocational rehabilitation maintenance to an injured employee at the rate at which the compensation for a temporary total disability is calculated, as provided in NRS 616C.475.

         2. The compensation for a temporary total disability terminates and vocational rehabilitation maintenance commences on the date on which an injured employee becomes eligible for vocational rehabilitation benefits. An insurer shall pay the injured employee vocational rehabilitation maintenance at least every 14 days thereafter until the injured employee:

         (a) Fails to:

              (1) Cooperate with the insurer; or

              (2) Participate in a program of vocational rehabilitation;

         (b) Completes a program of vocational rehabilitation; or

         (c) Moves out of this State.

         3. An insurer shall pay vocational rehabilitation maintenance to an injured employee for not more than 60 days during the period in which the program of vocational rehabilitation is being developed.

     (Added to NAC by Div. of Industrial Relations, eff. 3-28-94)—(Substituted in revision for NAC 616.0835)