1,673 pending workers compensation cases as at 14th Feb according to Review Report

1,673 pending workers compensation cases were with the Ministry of Employment as at 14th February this year according to the Review Report on the Management of Workers Compensation Trust Fund.

1,426 were injury cases and 247 were death cases.

300 workers are on the post-injury period which means that the injured workers are to wait for full recovery before the final assessment is completed.

The report was tabled in Parliament today by the Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts Alvick Maharaj.

The report says that a Taskforce Committee was handed the duty to settle these cases till the 14th of February this year.

Prior to February this year, there were 3,276 pending cases which included 2,897 injury cases and 397 cases where people have lost their lives.

The Committee has recommended that the processing of these cases be tracked more effectively to ensure timely completion and compensation.

They have also recommended that the Workman's Compensation Unit upgrade its information technology systems to capture, generate and evaluate data crucial to appropriate and correct compensation.

According to the report, there were errors in the data entered for specific fields or incomplete data were put into the system resulting in gaps in data when reports are extracted.