Workers comp group withdraws proposal

A draft proposal was scrapped that would have amended the Utah Workers Compensation Act to allow the option of suspending disability benefits to inmates and others those who don't return to work because of their own actions.

The draft proposal was withdrawn from the agenda for the Workers Compensation Fund Advisory Committee at a meeting last week. It had been designed to prevent fraud by those who are able to return to work after an injury but won't.

Some Latino leaders had been concerned the proposal could have impacted undocumented workers' ability to collect disability payments, even after wording mentioning undocumented was removed.