Subsequent Injury Fund

Welcome. Welcome to the Subsequent Injury Trust Fund's source of online information and materials. Items such as forms, publications, instructions on filing a claim, statistics, staff directory, and other useful information are available electronically.

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(404) 656-7100. The Subsequent Injury Trust Fund helps both employees and employers when a worker with a disability, injured while on the job, aggravates a pre-existing condition. The fund encourages employers to hire or retain workers with disabilities while simultaneously working to keep workers' compensation premiums under control.

The Georgia Subsequent Injury Trust Fund promotes the employment and retention of workers with disabilities. The fund accomplishes this goal by providing protection for employers from excess workers' compensation liability should an employee with a disability sustain an on-the-job injury resulting from or merging with the pre-existing impairment.

Although the Subsequent Injury Trust Fund is a separate state agency, the Board and the Fund work closely together. The Fund reimburses the employer/insurer for a portion of workers' compensation benefits paid in cases where a preexisting permanent impairment combines with a subsequent injury to produce a greater disability than would have ...

The Subsequent Injury Fund (SIF) reviews and investigates workers' compensation claims that involve pre-existing health conditions that substantially increase the disability of injured workers. The liability of employers' insurers is limited to compensation for the damages caused by the current injury, and the SIF incurs all additional ...

The actual Fund liability is determined by the Workers' Compensation Commission after a complete hearing on all relevant aspects of the claim. Criteria Determining Eligibility For a workers' compensation claimant to be eligible to receive compensation from the Subsequent Injury fund, he/she must meet certain criteria set by statute.