S.C. Code Regs. § § 67-503

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 10, October 25, 2024

Section 67-503 - Payment of Temporary Total and Temporary Partial Compensation

A. Medical, surgical, hospital, and other treatment including medical and surgical supplies are allowed from the first day of injury.

(1) Temporary total or temporary partial compensation is incurred on the eighth calendar day of incapacity and from the first day of incapacity if the injury results in incapacity for more than fourteen calendar days. The seven and fourteen day periods need not be consecutive days.

(2) Payment and acceptance of temporary compensation files a claim.

B. When the employer's representative begins to pay either temporary total or temporary partial compensation, or salary in lieu of temporary compensation, the employer's representative shall complete Section I of the Form 15, Temporary Compensation Report.

(1) The employer's representative shall file the Form 15 with the Claims Department within ten days of the date of first payment of compensation.

(2) The employer's representative shall serve the Form 15 on the Claimant according to R.67-211 with the claimant's first check.

C. When the compensation rate changes, the employer's representative shall complete, file, and serve, as set out above, a new Form 15.

(1) In an ongoing period of temporary partial compensation where the rate varies from week to week, the employer's representative shall report the first payment on the Form 15 as set out above.

(2) Supplemental payments shall be reported on the Form 15S, Supplemental Report of Compensation, to be filed with the document stopping that period of temporary partial compensation or with the Form 18, whichever becomes due first.

D. If the employer's representative does not pay temporary compensation, the claimant may request a hearing to receive benefits according to R.67-207. Payment of temporary total or temporary partial compensation does not prevent the claimant from seeking any other benefits available under the Act.

S.C. Code Regs. § 67-503

Amended by State Register Volume 19, Issue No. 5, eff May 26, 1995; State Register Volume 21, Issue No. 4, eff April 25, 1997.