Illinois WC housekeeping of various sorts.
Please note
- The mileage rate for IME’s has been lowered to $.50 per mile. This number is effective until June 30, 2010. FYI, we don’t recommend anyone pay mileage for normal medical care or to get to a light duty job—the Illinois Act and Rules don’t provide it and we don’t feel it is owed.
- The Commission is holding open houses for anyone interested on February 11 and April 6 from 9-12am. We applaud the Chairman and her staff for opening this administrative process to the public.
- We recently learned that the Commission PPD/TTD maximum rates have remained the same, despite a drop in the State Average Weekly Wage. We could have guessed that the powers that be at the Commission would never allow a reduction in rates, even though such a decrease is entirely appropriate where the statewide average was depressed due to hard economic times.
- The Commission had a wonderful worker leave the Collinsville hearing site at the end of last year. Her job is now open and the Commission’s news on their website indicates they are trying to fill the job. Your editor will personally donate $100 to Haiti earthquake relief in the name of anyone who can find that job listed on the Central Management Services website. We remain chagrined about how state WC jobs are seemingly hidden from the public to allow someone’s cousin’s brother’s uncle to quietly learn which rock to look under when they want to take applications only from a chosen few.
