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33 U.S.C. § 914 — Payment of compensation
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**(a) Manner of payment** Compensation under this chapter shall be paid periodically, promptly, and directly to the person entitled thereto, without an award, except where liability to pay compensation is controverted by the employer.
**(b) Period of installment payments** The first installment of compensation shall become due on the fourteenth day after the employer has been notified pursuant to [section 912 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section912&num=0&edition=prelim), or the employer has knowledge of the injury or death, on which date all compensation then due shall be paid. Thereafter compensation shall be paid in installments, semimonthly, except where the deputy commissioner determines that payment in installments should be made monthly or at some other period.
**(c) Notification of commencement or suspension of payment** Upon making the first payment, and upon suspension of payment for any cause, the employer shall immediately notify the deputy commissioner, in accordance with a form prescribed by the Secretary, that payment of compensation has begun or has been suspended, as the case may be.
**(d) Right to compensation controverted** If the employer controverts the right to compensation he shall file with the deputy commissioner on or before the fourteenth day after he has knowledge of the alleged injury or death, a notice, in accordance with a form prescribed by the Secretary stating that the right to compensation is controverted, the name of the claimant, the name of the employer, the date of the alleged injury or death, and the grounds upon which the right to compensation is controverted.
**(e) Additional compensation for overdue installment payments payable without award** If any installment of compe
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**(a) Manner of payment** Compensation under this chapter shall be paid periodically, promptly, and directly to the person entitled thereto, without an award, except where liability to pay compensation is controverted by the employer.
**(b) Period of installment payments** The first installment of compensation shall become due on the fourteenth day after the employer has been notified pursuant to [section 912 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section912&num=0&edition=prelim), or the employer has knowledge of the injury or death, on which date all compensation then due shall be paid. Thereafter compensation shall be paid in installments, semimonthly, except where the deputy commissioner determines that payment in installments should be made monthly or at some other period.
**(c) Notification of commencement or suspension of payment** Upon making the first payment, and upon suspension of payment for any cause, the employer shall immediately notify the deputy commissioner, in accordance with a form prescribed by the Secretary, that payment of compensation has begun or has been suspended, as the case may be.
**(d) Right to compensation controverted** If the employer controverts the right to compensation he shall file with the deputy commissioner on or before the fourteenth day after he has knowledge of the alleged injury or death, a notice, in accordance with a form prescribed by the Secretary stating that the right to compensation is controverted, the name of the claimant, the name of the employer, the date of the alleged injury or death, and the grounds upon which the right to compensation is controverted.
**(e) Additional compensation for overdue installment payments payable without award** If any installment of compensation payable without an award is not paid within fourteen days after it becomes due, as provided in subsection (b) of this section, there shall be added to such unpaid installment an amount equal to 10 per centum thereof, which shall be paid at the same time as, but in addition to, such installment, unless notice is filed under subsection (d) of this section, or unless such nonpayment is excused by the deputy commissioner after a showing by the employer that owing to conditions over which he had no control such installment could not be paid within the period prescribed for the payment.
**(f) Additional compensation for overdue installment payments payable under terms of award** If any compensation, payable under the terms of an award, is not paid within ten days after it becomes due, there shall be added to such unpaid compensation an amount equal to 20 per centum thereof, which shall be paid at the same time as, but in addition to, such compensation, unless review of the compensation order making such award is had as provided in [section 921 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section921&num=0&edition=prelim) and an order staying payment has been issued by the Board or court.
**(g) Notice of payment; penalty** Within sixteen days after final payment of compensation has been made, the employer shall send to the deputy commissioner a notice, in accordance with a form prescribed by the Secretary, stating that such final payment has been made, the total amount of compensation paid, the name of the employee and of any other person to whom compensation has been paid, the date of the injury or death, and the date to which compensation has been paid. If the employer fails to so notify the deputy commissioner within such time the Secretary shall assess against such employer a civil penalty in the amount of $100.
**(h) Investigations, examinations, and hearings for controverted, stopped, or suspended payments** The deputy commissioner (1) may upon his own initiative at any time in a case in which payments are being made without an award, and (2) shall in any case where right to compensation is controverted, or where payments of compensation have been stopped or suspended, upon receipt of notice from any person entitled to compensation, or from the employer, that the right to compensation is controverted, or that payments of compensation have been stopped or suspended, make such investigations, cause such medical examinations to be made, or hold such hearings, and take such further action as he considers will properly protect the rights of all parties.
**(i) Deposit by employer** Whenever the deputy commissioner deems it advisable he may require any employer to make a deposit with the Treasurer of the United States to secure the prompt and convenient payment of such compensation, and payments therefrom upon any awards shall be made upon order of the deputy commissioner.
**(j) Reimbursement for advance payments** If the employer has made advance payments of compensation, he shall be entitled to be reimbursed out of any unpaid installment or installments of compensation due.
**(k) Receipt for payment** An injured employee, or in case of death his dependents or personal representative, shall give receipts for payment of compensation to the employer paying the same and such employer shall produce the same for inspection by the deputy commissioner, whenever required.
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This chapter may be cited as “Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act.”
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**(a) Time for commencement** No compensation shall be allowed for the first three days of the disability, except the benefits provided for in [section 907 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section907&num=0&edition=prelim): Provided, however, That in case the injury results in disability of more than fourteen days the compensation shall be allowed from the date of the disability.
**(b) Maximum rate of compensation**
(1) Compensation for disability or death (other than compensation for death required by this chapter to be paid in a lump sum) shall not exceed an amount equal to 200 per centum of the applicable national average weekly wage, as determined by the Secretary under paragraph (3).
(2) Compensation for total disability shall not be less than 50 per centum of the applicable national average weekly wage determined by the Secretary under paragraph (3), except that if the employee’s average weekly wages as computed under [section 910 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section910&num=0&edition=prelim) are less than 50 per centum of such national average weekly wage, he shall receive his average weekly wages as compensation for total disability.
(3) As soon as practicable after June 30 of each year, and in any event prior to October 1 of such year, the Secretary shall determine the national average weekly wage for the three consecutive calendar quarters ending June 30. Such determination shall be the applicable national average weekly wage for the period beginning with October 1 of that year and ending with September 30 of the next year. The initial determination under this paragraph shall be made as soon as practicable after October 27, 1972.
**(c) Applicability of
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When used in this chapter—
(1) The term “person” means individual, partnership, corporation, or association.
(2) The term “injury” means accidental injury or death arising out of and in the course of employment, and such occupational disease or infection as arises naturally out of such employment or as naturally or unavoidably results from such accidental injury, and includes an injury caused by the willful act of a third person directed against an employee because of his employment.
(3) The term “employee” means any person engaged in maritime employment, including any longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring operations, and any harbor-worker including a ship repairman, shipbuilder, and ship-breaker, but such term does not include—
(A) individuals employed exclusively to perform office clerical, secretarial, security, or data processing work;
(B) individuals employed by a club, camp, recreational operation, restaurant, museum, or retail outlet;
(C) individuals employed by a marina and who are not engaged in construction, replacement, or expansion of such marina (except for routine maintenance);
(D) individuals who (i) are employed by suppliers, transporters, or vendors, (ii) are temporarily doing business on the premises of an employer described in paragraph (4), and (iii) are not engaged in work normally performed by employees of that employer under this chapter;
(E) aquaculture workers;
(F) individuals employed to build any recreational vessel under sixty-five feet in length, or individuals employed to repair any recreational vessel, or to dismantle any part of a recreational vessel in connection with the repair of such vessel;
(G) a master or member of a crew of any vessel; or
(H) any person engaged by a master to load or unload
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**(a)** In case of default by the employer in the payment of compensation due under any award of compensation for a period of thirty days after the compensation is due and payable, the person to whom such compensation is payable may, within one year after such default, make application to the deputy commissioner making the compensation order or 11 So in original. Probably should be “for”. a supplementary order declaring the amount of the default. After investigation, notice, and hearing, as provided in [section 919 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section919&num=0&edition=prelim), the deputy commissioner shall make a supplementary order, declaring the amount of the default, which shall be filed in the same manner as the compensation order. In case the payment in default is an installment of the award, the deputy commissioner may, in his discretion, declare the whole of the award as the amount in default. The applicant may file a certified copy of such supplementary order with the clerk of the Federal district court for the judicial district in which the employer has his principal place of business or maintains an office, or for the judicial district in which the injury occurred. In case such principal place of business or office or place where the injury occurred is in the District of Columbia, a copy of such supplementary order may be filed with the clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Such supplementary order of the deputy commissioner shall be final, and the court shall, upon the filing of the copy, enter judgment for the amount declared in default by the supplementary order if such supplementary order is in accordance with law. Review of the judgment so entered may be had as in civ
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**(a) Effectiveness and finality of orders** A compensation order shall become effective when filed in the office of the deputy commissioner as provided in [section 919 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section919&num=0&edition=prelim), and, unless proceedings for the suspension or setting aside of such order are instituted as provided in subsection (b) of this section, shall become final at the expiration of the thirtieth day thereafter.
**(b) Benefits Review Board; establishment; members; chairman; quorum; voting; questions reviewable; record; conclusiveness of findings; stay of payments; remand**
(1) There is hereby established a Benefits Review Board which shall be composed of five members appointed by the Secretary from among individuals who are especially qualified to serve on such Board. The Secretary shall designate one of the members of the Board to serve as chairman. The Chairman shall have the authority, as delegated by the Secretary, to exercise all administrative functions necessary to operate the Board.
(2) For the purpose of carrying out its functions under this chapter, three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum and official action can be taken only on the affirmative vote of at least three members.
(3) The Board shall be authorized to hear and determine appeals raising a substantial question of law or fact taken by any party in interest from decisions with respect to claims of employees under this chapter and the extensions thereof. The Board’s orders shall be based upon the hearing record. The findings of fact in the decision under review by the Board shall be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence in the record considered as a whole. The payment of the amounts required by an awar
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**(a) Time limitation** Notice of an injury or death in respect of which compensation is payable under this chapter shall be given within thirty days after the date of such injury or death, or thirty days after the employee or beneficiary is aware, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence or by reason of medical advice should have been aware, of a relationship between the injury or death and the employment, except that in the case of an occupational disease which does not immediately result in a disability or death, such notice shall be given within one year after the employee or claimant becomes aware, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence or by reason of medical advice should have been aware, of the relationship between the employment, the disease, and the death or disability. Notice shall be given (1) to the deputy commissioner in the compensation district in which the injury or death occurred, and (2) to the employer.
**(b) Form and content** Such notice shall be in writing, shall contain the name and address of the employee and a statement of the time, place, nature, and cause of the injury or death, and shall be signed by the employee or by some person on his behalf, or in case of death, by any person claiming to be entitled to compensation for such death or by a person on his behalf.
**(c) Delivery requirements** Notice shall be given to the deputy commissioner by delivering it to him or sending it by mail addressed to his office, and to the employer by delivering it to him or by sending it by mail addressed to him at his last known place of business. If the employer is a partnership, such notice may be given to any partner, or if a corporation, such notice may be given to any agent or officer thereof upon whom legal process may be served or who is in ch
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**(a)** In the administration of the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5 with respect to cases coming within the purview of [section 1701 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1701&num=0&edition=prelim), the scale of compensation benefits and the provisions for determining the amount of compensation and the payment thereof as provided in sections 908 and 909 of title 33, so far as the provisions of said sections can be applied under the terms and conditions set forth therein shall be payable in lieu of the benefits, except medical benefits, provided under subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5: Provided, That the total compensation payable under this subchapter for injury or death shall in no event exceed the limitations upon compensation as fixed in section 914(m) 11 See References in Text note below. of title 33 as such section may from time to time be amended except that the total compensation shall not be less than that provided for in the original enactment of this chapter.
**(b)** For the purpose of computing compensation with respect to cases coming within the purview of [section 1701 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1701&num=0&edition=prelim), the provisions of sections 906 and 910 of title 33 shall be applicable: Provided, That the minimum limit on weekly compensation for disability, established by [section 906(b) of title 33](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section906/b&num=0&edition=prelim), and the minimum limit on the average weekly wages on which death benefits are to be computed, established by [section 909(e) of title 33](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-sec
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TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
§ 914
1972—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 92–576 inserted ‘‘Except as
otherwise provided in this section’’ and provided that
the time for filing a claim shall not begin to run until
the employee or beneficiary is aware, or by the exercise
of reasonable diligence should have been aware, of the
relationship between the injury or death and the em-
ployment.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–426 effective Sept. 28, 1984,
and applicable both with respect to claims filed after
such date and to claims pending on such date, see sec-
tion 28(a) of Pub. L. 98–426, set out as a note under sec-
tion 901 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1972 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 92–576 effective 30 days after
Oct. 27, 1972, see section 22 of Pub. L. 92–576, set out as
a note under section 902 of this title.
§ 914. Payment of compensation
(a) Manner of payment
Compensation under this chapter shall be paid
periodically, promptly, and directly to the per-
son entitled thereto, without an award, except
where liability to pay compensation is con-
troverted by the employer.
(b) Period of installment payments
The first installment of compensation shall
become due on the fourteenth day after the em-
ployer has been notified pursuant to section 912
of this title, or the employer has knowledge of
the injury or death, on which date all compensa-
tion then due shall be paid. Thereafter com-
pensation shall be paid in installments, semi-
monthly, except where the deputy commissioner
determines that payment in installments should
be made monthly or at some other period.
(c) Notification of commencement or suspension
of payment
Upon making the first payment, and upon sus-
pe
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