{"id":192,"date":"2022-06-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/?p=192"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:25:23","slug":"vcf-update-defined-benefit-past-lost-wages-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/news\/vcf-update-defined-benefit-past-lost-wages-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Defined Benefit and Past Lost Wages Worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"defined-benefit-and-past-lost-wages-worksheet\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defined Benefit and Past Lost Wages Worksheet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The VCF now requires claimants to submit a worksheet when claiming a defined benefit pension loss due to a disability and the related loss of earnings. There are two different required worksheets, depending on which pension plan the claimant belonged to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Defined Benefit Pension Loss\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcf.gov\/pdf\/UnionandOtherDefinedBenefitPensionPlanWorksheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worksheet\u00a0<\/a>for those who were employed by New York City (under the pension system &#8220;NYCERS&#8221;) and those who worked for New York State (under the pension system &#8220;NYSLRS&#8221;).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcf.gov\/pdf\/UnionandOtherDefinedBenefitPensionPlanWorksheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separate worksheet<\/a>\u00a0for those who were part of a Union and other entities in which the claimant was entitled to a defined benefit pension plan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is now a required worksheet for those claiming past lost wages associated with time missed from work or other lost wages for temporary periods of time in the past. Past lost wages&nbsp;<strong>does not<\/strong>&nbsp;include findings of permanent disability from some entity (Social Security Disability; NYPD, FDNY, NYCERS, Union, NYSLRS Pension Systems, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defined Benefit and Past Lost Wages Worksheet The VCF now requires claimants to submit a worksheet when claiming a defined benefit pension loss due to a disability and the related loss of earnings. There are two different required worksheets, depending on which pension plan the claimant belonged to: There is now a required worksheet for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underdev.info\/site\/chc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}