{"id":2365,"date":"2007-04-03T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2007\/04\/03\/workers-compensation-2nd-injury-fund-to-keep-or-not-to-keep-2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T02:23:00","slug":"workers-compensation-2nd-injury-fund-to-keep-or-not-to-keep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/workers-compensation-2nd-injury-fund-to-keep-or-not-to-keep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Compensation: 2nd injury fund? to keep or not to keep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Legislative Audit Council, I will probably stand by our determination that the Second Injury Fund (SIF) needs to go:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found no evidence that the Second Injury Fund has an effect on promoting the hiring and retention of the disabled.<\/p>\n<p>    * Most claims to the SIF have been based on \u201cunknown conditions,\u201d in which the injured employee did not know that he had a previous disability. Unknown conditions cannot have an effect on employers\u2019 hiring decisions.<br \/>    * Since 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has protected potential employees and prohibits employers from questioning potential employees about their disabilities or previous injuries. At least 75% of employees in South Carolina are covered by the ADA.<br \/>    * Arthritis is the most common disability for which the SIF provides reimbursement, cited in 80% of claims over the past three years. Arthritis is also widespread in the population, reported by 21% of adults. It seems likely that the SIF is paying for claims for arthritis that were not related to hiring decisions.<br \/>    * We found no evidence that the majority of employers are aware of the SIF and its potential benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blanki\"href=\"http:\/\/lac.sc.gov\/Audit_Reports\/2007\/SIF.htm\">Click to read the Report at the LAC&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Legislative Audit Council, I will probably stand by our determination that the Second Injury Fund (SIF) needs to go: &#8220;We found no evidence that the Second Injury Fund has an effect on promoting the hiring and retention of the disabled. * Most claims to the SIF have been based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-C9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}