Section 12-10-27 - Benefit rate adjustment for permanently and totally disabled worker(a) Pursuant to section 386-35, HRS, insurers and self-insured employers shall make benefit rate adjustments to workers who are permanently and totally disabled. Insurers and self-insured employers shall be entitled to reimbursement from the special compensation fund for the supplemental amounts paid.(b) Claim for reimbursement shall be submitted on a form prescribed by the director. The reimbursement request shall include claimant's name, social security number, date of accident, age, case number, weekly compensation rate, and the amount of adjustment paid to the claimant.(c) The request for reimbursement shall be submitted to the department annually by January 31 of the subsequent calendar year. The request shall be audited by the department and the appropriate sum paid to the insurer or self-insured employer by June 30 of the year the request was filed. Reimbursement requests received after January 31 may be paid by the department upon showing of good cause for the late filing.[Eff: 4/30/81; am 12/8/94] (Auth: HRS § 386-72) (Imp: HRS § 386-35)