No one wants to look like a wimp, but your workers' compensation benefits exist for a reason. They're supposed to help you recover from work-related injuries and illnesses. And if you decide to tough it out each day, despite the lingering aches and pains your job has caused you, all that money is going somewhere else.
Where is it going? Well, the extra $1.5 billion that the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) made on its investments may be going back to the state's employers. According to The Cleveland American, the BWC may return $114.3 million to local governments, $50 million to public schools and an undisclosed sum to the private businesses it insures.
