To determine your weekly wage benefits, you must know what type of benefits you are receiving and then follow the calculations accordingly. To get your gross average weekly wage, you calculate the average of the 52 weeks prior to your injury date.
Permanent and Total Incapacity Benefits
You receive 66% of your gross average weekly wage; however, maximum and minimum limits are applied. The maximum weekly wage you can collect is whatever the average weekly wage in Massachusetts is at the time of your injury. The minimum is 20% of that same average. Also, you get an annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA).
Temporary Total Incapacity Benefits
You can get 60% of your gross average weekly wage. The maximum you can receive, however, is whatever the state’s average weekly wage is at the time of your injury.
Temporary Partial Incapacity Benefits
The most you can receive weekly is 75% of your weekly total temporary benefits. Temporary total benefits are 60% of your gross average weekly wage. So, first you calculate what you would receive for temporary total benefits (see above), and then you would get only 75% of that figure.