Analyzing the adequacy of benefits among workers’ compensation claimants in Ontario, 1999-2005

Reasons for the study

A key objective of workers’ compensation programs is to provide adequate compensation for lost earnings to people who experience work-related injury or illness. Whether this is the case was the focus of an earlier study by IWH, which examined the adequacy of workers’ compensation benefits for permanently disabled workers under two programs in Ontario: the pre-1990 program and the program during the period 1990-1997. At the request of Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), an IWH research team updated this earlier research to study benefits adequacy under the workers’ compensation program that came into effect in 1998.

Objectives of the study