Disabled Workers’ Relief Fund (DWRF)

The Disabled Workers’ Relief Fund (DWRF) provides an additional amount of compensation for those injured workers that are already receiving permanent total disability (PTD) compensation, if the amount that is being received is below a certain threshold. In a case where an injured worker is also receiving Social Security Disability, DWRF can still be paid but only when the amount of permanent total disability compensation received, plus the amount of Social Security Disability being received, falls below a particular amount. In short, the DWRF payment raises an injured worker’s permanent disability payments to the minimum amount as required by law.