The workers’ compensation system is intended to help injured employees address the financial effects of a workplace injury. As such, it is designed to serve as a temporary measure that fulfills a very specific set of needs for an injured worker and his or her family. But in instances where one suffers from an illness or physical ailment that leaves them unable to work for a significant length of time, it is instead the Social Security Disability Insurance system that supplies the necessary relief.
The two primary forms of disability are Temporary Partial Disability and Permanent Total Disability.