Effective date: May 1, 2022
Application: Applies to all administrative errors discovered on or after the effective date regardless of claim registration date.
Policy subject: Benefits - General
Purpose:
To establish guidelines for the management and correction of administrative errors by WCB staff.
Overpayment
Underpayment
Other
The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013
Sections 20(5), 112, 113, 115(j), 180.
(1) Previous POL 25/2010, Administrative Error - Cost Relief (effective February 3, 2012 to October 31, 2016) superseded by POL 17/2016, Overpayment Recovery – Compensation.