At the March 17, 2010 meeting, the Board of Directors approved the following amendments to policy item #65.04, Provisional Rate, in the Rehabilitation Services & Claims Manual, Volume II.

The changes to the Provisional Rate policy include:

• setting out that a provisional rate may be used when setting both short-term and long-term wage rates; and
• revising references to “worker’s average net earnings” to “worker’s average earnings” for consistency with the other average earnings policies in Chapter 9.

The changes to the policy apply to decisions made on or after May 1, 2010.