{"id":4814,"date":"2020-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/bwc-approves-5-billion-for-ohio-employers\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:27:08","slug":"bwc-approves-5-billion-for-ohio-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/bwc-approves-5-billion-for-ohio-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"BWC Approves $5 Billion for Ohio Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 2, the Ohio Bureau of Worker\u2019s Compensation (BWC) Board of Directors approved Governor Mike DeWine\u2019s request to send $5 billion in dividends to Ohio employers to ease the continued impact of COVID-19 on Ohio\u2019s business community and workforce. This dividend is approximately four times the total premiums BWC collected from its employer members in the 2019 policy year. BWC will apply the dividend to an employer\u2019s unpaid balances first, then send a check for the remainder in mid-December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency previously issued a $1.54 billion dividend in late April, and $1.34 billion in October. Please read more about BWC\u2019s now third issued dividend in 2020 on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/info.bwc.ohio.gov\/wps\/portal\/gov\/bwc\/news-and-events\/news\/bwc-board-approves-5-billion-dividend\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a>. If you have any questions about the impact of this dividend to your business, please reach out to our office and we will be glad to assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 2, the Ohio Bureau of Worker&#8217;s Compensation (BWC) Board of Directors approved Governor Mike DeWine&#8217;s request to send $5 billion in dividends to Ohio employers to ease the continued impact of COVID-19 on Ohio&#8217;s business c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"post_statement":"","post_description":"","post_cta":"","post_button":"Read More","post_button_url":"","compliance_id":"","post_disclaimer":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitcomb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}