HRS §386-23.6
Adjusting weekly payments for disabled workers with attendants
This section explains how to adjust weekly benefits for permanently and totally disabled workers who get attendant care. If they stopped getting weekly benefits, they can start again without applying, based on a formula. If they get half benefits, the amount is adjusted using a similar formula.
employees
The statute, as written — Weekly benefit adjustments for recipients of services of attendants
Any permanently and totally disabled employee awarded and receiving compensation under section 386-23 or 386-23.5, but: (1) Who is no longer receiving weekly benefits shall, without application, be entitled to a resumption of weekly benefits from the special compensation fund in an amount equal to a percentage of the current maximum weekly benefit determined by multiplying the current maximum weekly benefit rate by a fraction, the numerator of which is the weekly benefit amount the employee had been receiving and the denominator of which is the maximum weekly benefit rate applicable at the time the weekly benefit award was made. (2) Who is receiving one-half of weekly benefits from the special compensation fund shall be entitled to weekly benefits in an amount equal to a percentage of the current maximum weekly benefit rate determined by multiplying the current maximum weekly benefit rate by a fraction, the numerator of which is twice the amount the employee had been receiving and the denominator of which is the maximum weekly benefit rate applicable at the time the weekly benefit award was made.
Sections this one refers to
§386-23 Payments for a caregiver when you are badly injured
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