| Special Funds
- James Kennedy, Administrator
The Special Funds Division is comprised of two individual funds: the Second Injury Trust Fund and the Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund. The Second Injury Trust Fund was statutorily created to encourage employment of disabled workers by limiting, in the event of subsequent injury, the employer's liability for permanent disability benefits. Act 1415 of 2007 amended Arkansas Code § 11-9-525, by stating that no new claims shall be filed with the Second Injury Fund on or after January 1, 2008.
The Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund pays weekly benefits to permanent and totally disabled workers or dependents of deceased workers after the workers' compensation insurer has paid indemnity liability of $50,000 or $75,000, whichever is applicable by law. In an attempt to assure the solvency of the Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund, the AR General Assembly amended § 11-9-502, by increasing the compensation providers limit of liability to three hundred twenty-five (325) times the maximum total disability rate, for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2008. (Act 1599 of 2007)
Contact the Special
Funds’ Staff
SECOND
INJURY FUND
DEATH
& PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY TRUST FUND
SPECIAL FUNDS DIVISION
324 Spring Street
P.O. Box 950
Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-0950
State of Arkansas
Workers' Compensation Commission
324 Spring Street
P.O. Box 950
Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-0950
Telephone 1-501-682-3930 / 1-800-622-4472
Legal Advisor Direct 1-800-250-2511
Arkansas Relay System TDD 1-800-285-1131
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