N.Y. Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law § 11: Temporary partial disability benefits

§ 11. Temporary partial disability benefits. In the case of temporary

partial disability the volunteer firefighter shall be paid for each week

during the continuance thereof, as follows:

1. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is seventy-five per

centum, or greater, he or she shall be paid ninety-five dollars for each

week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured

in the line of duty on or after January first, nineteen hundred

seventy-eight to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred

eighty-three, such payment shall be one hundred five dollars for each

week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured

in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred

eighty-three to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred

eighty-four, such payment shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars for

each week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is

injured in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred

eighty-four to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred

eighty-five, such payment shall be one hundred thirty-five dollars for

each week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is

injured in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred

eighty-five to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety

such payment shall be one hundred fifty dollars for each week, provided,

however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of

duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety to and including

June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-one such payment shall be two

hundred eighty dollars for each week, provided, however, that when the

volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of duty on or after July

first, nineteen hundred ninety-one to and including June thirtieth,

nineteen hundred ninety-two such payment shall be three hundred fifty

dollars for each week, provided, however, that when the volunteer

firefighter is injured in the line of duty on or after July first,

nineteen hundred ninety-two such payment shall be four hundred dollars

for each week;

2. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is fifty per centum,

or greater, but less than seventy-five per centum, he or she shall be

paid sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents for each week, provided,

however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of

duty on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight to and

including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-three, such payment

shall be seventy dollars for each week, provided, however, that when the

volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of duty on or after July

first, nineteen hundred eighty-three to and including June thirtieth,

nineteen hundred eighty-four, such payment shall be eighty-three dollars

and thirty-three cents for each week, provided, however, that when the

volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of duty on or after July

first, nineteen hundred eighty-four to and including June thirtieth,

nineteen hundred eighty-five, such payment shall be ninety dollars for

each week, provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is

injured in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred

eighty-five to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety

such payment shall be one hundred dollars for each week, provided,

however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured in the line of

duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety to and including

June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-one such payment shall be one

hundred eighty-six dollars and seventy-six cents for each week,

provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured in the

line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one to and

including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-two such payment shall

be two hundred thirty-four dollars and fifty cents for each week,

provided, however, that when the volunteer firefighter is injured in the

line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-two such

payment shall be two hundred sixty-eight dollars for each week;

3. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is twenty-five per

centum, or greater, but less than fifty per centum, he shall be paid

thirty dollars for each week;

4. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is less than

twenty-five per centum, he or she shall not be paid any weekly benefit.

Temporary partial disability, within the meaning of this section, shall

exist only if the earning capacity of the volunteer firefighter has been

temporarily and partially lost as the result of the injury. The workers'

compensation board shall determine the degree of such disability and

such board may reconsider such degree on its own motion or upon

application of any party in interest.