44-512. Time and manner of compensation payments. - Kansas Statutes

44-512

Chapter 44.--LABOR AND INDUSTRIES Article 5.--WORKERS COMPENSATION

      44-512.   Time and manner of compensation payments.Workers compensation payments shall be made at the same time, placeand in the same manner as the wages of the worker were payable at thetime of the accident, but upon the application of eitherparty the administrative law judge may modify suchrequirements in a particular caseas the administrative law judge deems just, except that: (a)Payments from the workers compensation fund established by K.S.A. 44-566a andamendmentsthereto shall be made in the manner approved by the commissioner of insurance;(b) payments from the state workerscompensationself-insurance fund established by K.S.A. 44-575 and amendments thereto shallbemade in a manner approved by the secretary of administration;and (c) whenever temporary total disability compensation isto be paid under the workers compensation act, payments shall bemade only in cash, by check or in the same manner that the employee isnormally compensated for salary or wages and not by any other means, exceptthat any suchcompensation may be paid by warrant of the directorof accounts and reports issued for payment of such compensation from theworkers compensation fund or the stateworkerscompensationself-insurance fund under the workers compensation act.

      History:   L. 1927, ch. 232, § 12; L. 1974, ch. 203, § 19; L.1975, ch. 260, § 2; L. 1980, ch. 264, § 17; L. 1982, ch. 213, § 1;L. 1988, ch. 168, § 1;L. 1993, ch. 286, § 38;L. 1995, ch. 132, § 1; Dec. 17.