MN 200.00 Workers' Compensation

Click on the case numbers below to access decisions about whether a claimant’s workers’ compensation benefits affect the payment of unemployment benefits.

0078 1790 63

0078 1790 63 (Oct. 12, 2023) – Pursuant to G.L. c. 151A, § 25(d), the claimant was not entitled to unemployment insurance benefits between June 24, 2022, and September 5, 2022, because she was receiving temporary total disability benefits through a workers’ compensation claim.

0013 5701 21

0013 5701 21 (Apr. 27, 2015) – It was error for the review examiner to conclude that by the claimant accepting a Workers’ Compensation lump sum settlement, it precluded the claimant from continuing to work for the employer as a matter of law, or that by signing the agreement, the claimant voluntarily ended the employment relationship.  This is because the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that the statutory presumption under G.L. c. 152, § 48(4) – that such employee is incapable of returning to work for the employer – is rebuttable.