Note: For IRIS Participants Who Hire Workers Directly

The rates paid for workers’ compensation changed as of October 1, 2011.

Workers’ compensation is a type of insurance that offers wages and benefits to workers who may be injured while on the job. You may choose to offer workers’ compensation to your workers, if it fits within your IRIS budget and meets your long-term care goals.

• Part-Time Worker: $295 yearly (reduced from $309)
• Full-Time Worker: $458 yearly (reduced from $476)

There is also a yearly $220 flat rate paid to offer workers’ compensation. This rate has not changed.

These rates are based on whether the worker holds a part-time or full-time position. A full-time worker is someone who works more than 20 hours per week. Part-time workers’ compensation policies are determined by the number of hours each part-time worker works each week. Workers’ compensation policies cannot be offered to your workers employed by an agency.

If you choose to offer workers’ compensation to your workers, you must offer it to all of your paid workers. It is not possible to offer workers’ compensation to only some of your workers.

Workers’ compensation rates are listed on Individual Supports and Services Plans as “one-time” expenses. As annual plans are renewed, any existing policies will need to be updated as a one-time expense with the current rates (listed above), in addition to the $220 flat rate paid to offer workers’ compensation policies.

Questions?

To learn more about workers’ compensation, please contact your IRIS Consultant or the IRIS Information Center by phone at 1-888-515-4747 or by email at info@Wisconsin-IRIS.com.