New York A 10205: Provides for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits for an employee with a permanent total disability

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A10205 Summary:

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Provides for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits for an employee with a permanent total disability to be based on an increase of the consumer price index as promulgated by the U.S. department of labor.

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02/12/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 10205

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 12, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
 Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing
 for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in certain cases

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 15 of the workers' compensation law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
 3 10. Cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in certain
 4 cases. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to
 5 any other amount received pursuant to this article as disability bene-
 6 fits, an employee with a permanent total disability or the beneficiary-
 7 dependent of such employee shall be entitled to an additional allowance,
 8 to be known as a cost-of-living adjustment allowance, payable annually.
 9 (b) The cost-of-living adjustment allowance shall be computed by
 10 applying an adjustment for regional costs of living and shall be based
 11 on fifty percent of the annual increase in the consumer price index as
 12 promulgated by the United States department of labor.
 13 § 2. The workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new section
 14 208-a to read as follows:
 15 § 208-a. Cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in certain
 16 cases. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any
 17 other amount received pursuant to this article as disability benefits,
 18 an employee with a permanent total disability or the beneficiary-depen-
 19 dent of such employee shall be entitled to an additional allowance, to
 20 be known as a cost-of-living adjustment allowance, payable annually.
 21 2. The cost-of-living adjustment allowance shall be computed by apply-
 22 ing an adjustment for regional costs of living and shall be based on
 23 fifty percent of the annual increase in the consumer price index as
 24 promulgated by the United States department of labor.
 25 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 26 the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14407-01-6

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