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85.60 INJURIES WHILE IN EMPLOYMENT TRAINING OR
EVALUATION.
A person participating in a school-to-work program referred to in
section 85.61, or receiving earnings while engaged in employment
training or while undergoing an employment evaluation under the
direction of a rehabilitation facility approved for
purchase-of-service contracts or for referrals by the department of
human services or the department of education, who sustains an injury
arising out of and in the course of the school-to-work program
participation, employment training, or employment evaluation is
entitled to benefits as provided in this chapter, chapter 85A,
chapter 85B, and chapter 86. Notwithstanding the minimum benefit
provisions of this chapter, a person referred to in this section and
entitled to benefits under this chapter is entitled to receive a
minimum weekly benefit amount for a permanent partial disability
under section 85.34, subsection 2, or for a permanent total
disability under section 85.34, subsection 3, equal to the weekly
benefit amount of a person whose gross weekly earnings are
thirty-five percent of the statewide average weekly wage computed
pursuant to section 96.3 and in effect at the time of the injury. Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1104, §1; 97 Acts, ch 37, § 2
Referred to in § 85.61
