Return-to-work programs in workers' compensation are designed to:

Explanation

The point of a return-to-work programme is to put the injured worker back on the payroll doing something the treating physician allows, and the statutes reward it directly. §4658.7(b) makes the supplemental job displacement benefit voucher payable unless the employer offers regular, modified or alternative work — the three terms defined in §4658.1 — no later than 60 days after the report finding the disability permanent and stationary. §4650(b)(2) lets the employer withhold permanent disability payments before an award where it has offered a position paying at least 85 percent of the former wages, and §139.48 funds the Return-to-Work Supplement Program on top of that. (b) confuses long-run experience rating with an immediate premium cut, which no offer of modified work produces. (c) is wrong on the statute's own terms: medical treatment remains the employer's obligation under §4600 whatever work is offered. (d) describes surveillance rather than a benefit.